When AI/automation can do basic jobs—things like planting and harvesting food, building houses, checking you out at the supermarket—there's reason to believe th

When AI/automation can do basic jobs—things like planting and harvesting food, building houses, checking you out at the supermarket—there's reason to believe that people may no longer be needed to do those jobs. This even extends to most business-logic type computer programming. But it doesn't make any sense to say "AI can make art, why would we need humans to make art anymore?" Making art is part of being human, and it doesn't matter if an AI can make 65,535 amazing, beautiful paintings or musical compositions or stories: it's not making the ones that I have inside my head and want to create. And if a human can pick up an AI and say "I want an oil painting that looks like X, with Y style, and Z details" and have it produce that, then at the very worst, AI has become another tool for artists. I guarantee you that no AI will be able to take a description like that and produce exactly what an artist wants every time; thus, at the very worst, people who want to use AI as a tool in creating art will still want to use the AI's product as a base, and tweak it to more perfectly fit their vision. (And if, for instance, the artist is disabled and unable to hold a brush, then perhaps they will use the AI as a tool to make those tweaks, as well—thus opening up the ability to paint for people who have been unable to.)