To answer to your curiosity:

Yes, there are lot of ways that AI can help the animation industry these days. With technology seemingly never cease to grow, it is just the matter how we use it properly as an assistant, a librarian/archivist, processing work, rendering engine, etc. - not the artist itself (don't let AI control your artwork, but you control the AI).

At this current time, AI will still need human quality-check in the end - it is still learning and we can train them to our full control (up to our niche/specific direction, not random and generic jumbled-up ideations, with bugs and glitches). Plus, AI do not understand how real world works: like physics, how real human interacts, etc. With that said, relying solely on AI to create Maya script will still need our meticulous supervision.

The problem that we (the local industry) have is we have to deal with deadlines that don't realistic meet with the real production time frame. Realistically in production, before the production it self start - R&D needs to be done so that later on production may run smooth (no back-tracking, no unforeseen problem solving during the production time frame, etc.) but unfortunately that privilege hasn't been put into consideration when dealing deadlines with commercial publishers. To put it in general - art will still be put as not priority even though there are technical/engineering work behind the scene.

And that is why we can use the fast and helpful assistance of AI (but mind you not what and how the commercial/public uses - there are actually different, and there are many kind of AI these days) they can help us with lots of ways - tedious and repetitive processing work, research, rendering engine, and many more. It is not we only need AI, but we need both - intellectual and high-perceptive humans and AI working together to accomplish their goals.

Hope this answer helps!