In a world that runs on predictions, the highest virtue will no longer be expertise. It will be doubt. Not ignorant doubt, but professional, rigorous, creative doubt. We will need a new profession: Doubters. Their job: to attack the model’s conclusions, to find the flaws in its seamless logic, to protect the realm of the “might-be-wrong.”These won’t be critics in the comment section. They’ll be well-funded teams with access to the model’s raw outputs and the mandate to try to break its reasoning. They’ll use adversarial simulations, hunt for hidden biases in the training data, and propose alternative causal models that fit the data just as well. They’ll be the immune system for a civilization hooked on predictive certainty.The model itself will hate them. Their success is its failure. But we must protect them absolutely. Their reports will be more important than the model’s original predictions. A society that only listens to the oracle is a cult. A society that pays heretics to question the oracle is a civilization.This profession will require a strange mix of skills: deep technical knowledge, philosophical rigor, and the soul of a contrarian. They will be unpopular. They will be the bearers of bad news, the messengers who say, “The model is confident, but here are three ways it could be catastrophically wrong.” They will be the most important people in the world.My controversial take is this: We should legally mandate that any major policy derived from a World Model must be accompanied by a “Shadow Prediction” generated by an independent, adversarial Doubter team. This shadow report gets equal billing, equal airtime. The public debate is not between the model’s plan and nothing. It’s between the model’s plan and the best possible case against it. We institutionalize dissent. We make doubt a pillar of the state. Because in the age of omniscient simulation, the only thing more dangerous than being wrong is being certain you’re right.This has been The World Model Podcast. When the machine speaks with the voice of god, our job is to be the devil’s advocate, on salary, with benefits. Subscribe now.