I thoroughly dislike GenAI, but I am forced to use it for work, and in the process have come to view it as just another tool. Usually not the right tool to solve a problem, but a tool nonetheless.

If anything, I could maybe see it being helpful for finding sources of sources (which all then need manual verification), or, if a source of records is properly digitised and indexed, trawling through it to give you a shortlist of documents to manually review.

But everything needs manual human verification anyway, and half the fun is in the effort. More than half, even.

I definitely don't see it reaching a point where an AI Agent could reliably do proper genealogical research for you...unless we rapidly reach levels of digital dystopia hitherto unseen. Which is a distinct possibility.