I'm interested in how media portrays societal feelings and moods, and I think the rise of movies showing AI 'gone wrong' is reflecting a cultural climate of fear around this issue. Having said that, I think it's really exciting! A best case scenario would perhaps be with more and more robots taking over menial work, humans would be able to spend more time and effort on the arts. In fact, I watched a Mind Fields episode about this recently where Michael Stevens hypothesised that future governments would actually pay people to be artists, as a means to keep them from crime...
Interesting, but I'd potentially also agree that paying people to become artists would be an economically viable way to decrease crime rates. I'll be taking a look at Mind Fields trailers :)
Have you watched the movie Interstellar? The way AI is portrayed in that movie, I think, is very accurate and it defines the AI-human collaboration in a very sensible, non-sensational way. I also don't like the fact that AI is portrayed mostly negatively in movies, but in a way, that's also good because people who design it probably become more careful, and take the human-AI interaction into the account more seriously.
And definitely, we might have more time to spend on the arts, but also, given the amount of time and energy we will have, we might also discover completely unprecedented fronts in the humanities, because:
The future is not visible, and this is actually a source of hope for us!