Assuming a Truth Machine can be built at all, building one that doesn't leak classified intel shouldn't be a problem. Reading someone's thoughts is very different from downloading everything they've ever read. Just build the machine to answer "Yes, this person is being deceptive" or "No, they are not" and provide no other output, discarding all other input at the end of each session.
I think this position made a lot of sense a few years ago when we had no idea how a superintelligence might be built. The LLM paradigm has made me more hopeful about this. We're not doing a random draw from the space of all possible intelligences, where you would expect to find eldritch alien weirdness. LLMs are trained to imitate humans; that's their nature. I've been very positively surprised by the amount of empathy and emotional intelligence LLMs like Claude display; I think alignment research is on the right track.
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What does ToC stand for here?