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I'm not sure what this has to do with politics? The lead-up discusses "an Artificial Intelligence, which was carrying out its work in isolation" — the relevant part seems to be that it doesn't interact with other agents at all, not that it doesn't do politics specifically. Even without politics, other agents can still be mistaken, biased, misinformed, or deceitful; and one use of the concept of "truth" has to do with predicting the accuracy of others' statements and those people's intentions in making them.
I think politics is used to refer to social manipulation, status, and signaling here. The example is used to designate an agent that has no concern for asserting social privilege over others.