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==== 1. “AI can’t predict the future.” ====

False.

Many AI systems explicitly do prediction in the technical sense:
* Weather models predict future atmospheric states.
* Epidemiological models predict case trajectories.
* Credit risk, fraud detection, demand forecasting predict future events.
* Protein folding models predict stable molecular structures that had never been experimentally observed.

These are not guesses; they are statistical forecasts with measurable accuracy.
They are probabilistic, not clairvoyant—but so are human forecasts.

Correct framing:
AI cannot know the future with certainty, but it can and does make predictive inferences that outperform humans in many domains.