Will AI lead to the elimination of the SEO skill?

It will help experts be more efficient

It will greatly increase efficiency but will probably not eliminate yet the need for this skill. Besides most efficient systems nowadays are centaur systems (human and AI collaboration) combining human insight with the vast knowledge and speed of AI

It probably will. Let's see how far the capabilities of modern AI will spread in the next five years. It will be a loooong time.

Things will change, but if anything, your own content suddenly becomes more valuable as you can now use it with AI to build chatbots for your audience on your content, analyze it to find deeper insights, and brainstorm with it to better repurpose and expand it.

I don't think so. The way we do SEO may be different, but I think the human touch element is still necessary. We get similar questions in UX and what I've seen is people using AI, things breaking, and no one knowing what's wrong or how to solve it. Who best to fix these problems than the specialists?

IMO, no! Because SEO is not a skill. SEO is a set of business practices, that contribute to your business being found online. It's about the technical implementation of your site, so your pages load fast and users don't bounce back to Google because they have to wait for your site to load (and more). It's about fulfilling your users search intent as fast as possible. There's much more to it than writing blog posts. Sure, it will help with the stuff you have to do. But it won't eliminate it completely, probably 😁

Future marketing is a battlefield of different AI SEO bots )

I'm not an SEO expert but it's an excellent question.

Def!

AI is indeed transforming the SEO landscape, automating certain tasks and making others more efficient. But it's unlikely to completely eliminate the need for human SEO skills. Creativity, strategy, and understanding the ever-changing nuances of search engines will still require a human touch.