AI… Synergy or Antergy?

Leading this post with what I'll call perhaps an unpopular opinion? Or just my opinion!
Last week at the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL) conference a number of topics were discussed around AI and nursing... Of course, on top of everyone's mind was the idea of AI replacing the role of the Registered Nurse! I'm sure some of you have read about states passing laws that specifically call out that only a human can hold the title of Registered Nurse, with the assumption that we will continue to have nursing as we know it today for the foreseeable future. I brought up this comment and question at the conference, and I will bring it here as well.
My prediction is that it's not a matter of whether AI will replace Nursing as we know it today, but when will it happen? (And it's not just nursing... I think the role of the provider will be up first way before nurses!)
Exhibit A - (if you're not a sci-fi fan, you may not relate, but here are a few examples that are probably in our not-too-distant future... if you haven't seen Bicentennial Man, with the late great Robin Williams, I highly recommend it - Robin Williams plays an android that spends centuries trying to become human, Star Trek Voyager - Physician is a hologram, Star Wars - almost every medical team is a robot, and the list goes on...)
Although we have some ways to go, way past my lifetime, it would be foolish to think technology will stop it's progress of AI and robotics because the nursing profession feels nurses have to be human!
I think we should be asking how we are preparing the next generation of nurses to be prepared to lead, design, engineer, code... the Nurse AI of the future. I can definitely say we won't be in the driver's seat or even at the table if we continue to believe AI and technology will not surpass the capabilities of today's nursing. I will argue that the Registered Nurse of the future will look more like a Robotics/AI engineer/scientist, and there will definitely be much fewer in numbers. The tasks so often relinquished and associated with bedside nursing are completed by androids that will look like us, speak like us, make no mistakes, aren't distracted by colleagues or their social media status (goodbye to the hospital bathroom selfies with the designer scrubs), will be capable of much better assessments, documentation, will anticipate a bad outcome and calculate interventions much faster, be able to implement protocols in a fraction of second, and they won't miss their IV's and blame on the patients rolling veins!
The value of a Registered Nurse is not in the skill of bedside nursing but the intellectual and human curiosity; it's in the ability to surpass what it has been taught, to question the norms, and to create, be abstract, innovate, and invest in the human experience. As a profession, we are so much more, yet we allow others to delegate tasks and orders and treat us as hired labor!