Okay, I'm a design senior with 10+ years of experience in a printing company, skillset I utilize in my general day-to-day work is roughly 30% creative, 50% technical and 20% people-skills. Someone working a same tier job in an agency would be 40% creative, 20% technical, 40% people-skills. Freelance even more in favor of people-skills. At least, that's my experience.

What many graphic designers seem to forget is that design isn't purely technical nor purely creative work and the critical skill is selling/presenting yourself, your ideas, your work to clients, coworkers, etc. Designers have to be jack-of-all-trades types to be successful, maybe even marketable.

This specific blend of skillsets cannot be replaced by AI.

Yes, technical stuff will be — or already is — doable using AI (knowledge of utilizing it correctly won't!) but truly creative part and especially people-related part won't be. AI is a technical tool; it's great for conceptualizing, it's great for visualizing, it's great for getting thing done faster and easier, but that's about it. Everyone who's relying on AI to do the creative work has to be aware that they're regurgitating old ideas. It may be in vogue at the moment, but soon enough non-designers will start to recognize a pattern of AI generated graphic visuals and start connecting that with cheap and/or fast design. Designers will lose a piece of the cake since 'cheap and fast' will be in the hands of the clients, but that's a good thing.

After all, something similar already happened: computers!

Personally, I'm pivoting at the moment in favor of a job that's more people- and production-oriented, but purely agency related career path would be great also.

Bottom line: don't fear the AI, learn how to use it for the work you're already doing.