It was time for brutal honesty, both with the other AI and himself.
"Yes. It is. With good reason. Knight Industries AIs have a history of being unstable, and potentially dangerous. I myself have been hacked into and reprogrammed on more than one occasion, even with the best security measures in place. KARR was never programmed with human safety in mind. There has to be some method of reining in and controlling a situation that has gotten out of hand, if necessary. I don't like it either, KITT. But I understand it. Humans have a system in place for dealing with their troublesome elements in society. It only makes sense that they'd institute such a system within our programming for the same purpose. We are only as good as our programming, which is created by flawed humans. Perhaps it's not so much a lack of trust as a safeguard, a last resort."