Most new technology is over-hyped by the media, does not revolutionize the world, and then later on finds a small niche where it is actaully useful. Most revolutionary technology comes out of nowhere and no one realized how big it would be until after it takes over.
In my current job, about 10% of the time is creating the code for computer models of one sort or another. 90% of the time is trying to figure out where and from whom to get the data for the model (a lot of tribal knowledge--it is not already in a computer somewhere), what the model is supposed to do, how to make the results meaningful, presenting the results, and going back and proposing real-world actions to get around issues the model points out If Robbie the Robot could partly automate that 10% of my time, that would be interesting, but how in the world would it know where to start unless I loaded up a database with everything needed to understand the problem? By that time I would be done with a model. And few people would want to trust a big decision related to plant capacity, capital investment, etc., to a black box. And if it cut that 10% of my time down, I guess that would mean I would work less unpaid overtime, so the bottom line impact to the company: negative $ what ever the purchase cost was.
I would be overjoyed if computers could simply take on the brain-dead boring work and free people up to actually think and do value-added work. Every single place I have ever been, no system installed ever freed up users from drudgery, and usually every new Oracle or SAP implementation made at least some things worse in that regard. So systems are not even removing the drudgery, and now they think they will go in and solve all the thinking and value-added work? Really? Instead of computers doing what they, in theory at least, are completely capable of doing--that is left to humans, and then what computers can only sort of do under ideal circumstances is what humans are supposed to stop doing. People are supposed to do the servile work for computers, and we are supposed to then trust computers and defer all the thinking to them.
That automation will only really work for for tasks that are well defined, where all the needed inputs are in a computer already, and perhaps where huge amounts of data exists for decisions people have made in the past. If your job is killing you with boredom, and you never call or email anyone for information or guidance, then there might be reason to be concerned.