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title: "Predictive AI"
description: "AI that outputs an estimate about something that exists: a score, class or forecast."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/predictive-ai
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
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updated: 2026-09-24
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# Predictive AI

AI that outputs an estimate about something that exists: a score, class or forecast [1]. Its harms are mostly allocation harms, and its evidence is accuracy, calibration and error rates by subgroup, with a decision threshold someone owns. Also called discriminative AI.

- Developed in: [ch. 11, Predictive versus generative](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined#predictive-versus-generative)
- Chapters: [ch. 11, AI Defined](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined)
- Contrast with: [Generative AI](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/generative-ai)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-predictive-ai

## Sources

[1] Commission Guidelines on the definition of an artificial intelligence system established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (C(2025) 5053 final; non-binding; seven elements of Art. 3(1), inference as the indispensable condition; exclusions). European Commission. 2025-02-06. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-publishes-guidelines-ai-system-definition-facilitate-first-ai-acts-rules-application (verified: primary)