Automatic
I agree fully that civilian aircraft will fly pilotless and maybe with paying passengers and it'll probably start to happen in the next 20 years, but it won't be AI doing the flying, it'll be a ground based human pilot remotely controlling it with real pilots up there watching and ready to take over for the first 20 years or so, until we gain trust that it can be done fully remotely with 100% fail safe. Eventually a sophisticated well programmed (hopefully!) computer will do it with human oversight from the ground and will be called something fancy but is essentially autopilot controlled from below.
We will never trust AI to differentiate between a wolf and domestic dog or even really learn how and get it right everytime, but that demonstrates nicely the severe lack of actual real time artificial intelligence that we have achieved so far that is of any real use.
Fossil fuel use and the drive to eliminate them is a bigger concern for pilots and the future of aviation.