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The arts/humanities maybe? Because the human intellect and human emotions will always be relevant and valuable to other humans.

Sidenote: when I say "arts/humanities" I'm not just referring to entertainment but also the branches of society that deal with introspection and cultural criticism for the sake of human autonomy.

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I think it is something on the first line for potential replacement. Deep learning chat bot, which learned emotions from million of books can come tomorrow and successfully imitate human emotions.

A computer's capability for imitating a human doesn't take away the value of human-made art. If anything, it's another medium. Otherwise you're arguing that people don't care about understanding the human condition, which I don't think will be a valid claim anytime soon. AI can definitely take over the production of decorative objects though, of course.

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