Council Post: 'I Doubt, Therefore I Am,' Said AI

It's Monday morning, and Paul opens one of several emails sent by his boss, Heather. Her email seems a bit unusual, asking Paul to rush to a nearby store to purchase $200 in gift certificates and send her the codes found in the cards right away. "This is weird," thinks Paul. After some digging, he finds a typo in his boss's email address and realizes that this is not really coming from Heather, a doubt which was confirmed by the company's IT department shortly thereafter. Paul avoided being robbed of $200 by this (today very common) phishing attack by exercising one of the most fundamental faculties of human thought: doubt.