Automation will continue to evolve and take over more and more jobs. But there is a right way to automation and the wrong way. The right way should improve peoples lives, their experiences etc. you shouldn't even be able to tell the automation is happening. All that background boring tedious stuff.

If anything it opens up new jobs and new areas of development, programming and more. Just like the industrial era we all made it through that just fine we are now entering the information era and one where I believe soon we will be expanding outside of just the earth opening up massive amount of new potential.

One thing AI has yet and most likely will never overcome is judgement calls. In the world many unexpected things can happen and as humans we actually have a very capable reaction to them unlike any automated system.

I do like your final thoughts of us instead spending that time on arts, music and literature. I feel in today's world just about everyone works way to much. The system is literally broken for someone going to school, getting a job and then expecting to retire. 90% of those people will most likely work the rest of their lives and try to pay off debt. It very well could be a nicer world.