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I would believe the AI if it told me that human beings all had tails. (That's not even so far from classic anosgnosia - maybe primates just lost the tail-controlling cortex over the course of evolution, instead of the actual tails. Plus some mirror neurons to spread the rationalization to other humans.)
I would believe the AI if it told me that humans were actually "active" during sleep and had developed a whole additional sleeping civilization whose existence our waking selves were programmed to deny and forget.
I would not believe the AI if it told me that 2 + 2 = 3.
Since there are people who do have tails that we can perceive just fine, it's almost certain that people who don't have tails really don't.
Unless people perceive others as having one less tail than they see.