Yes Megan. Absolutely!
There's always a some sort of group demanding pilots be replaced with automation and the problem with that is that there are numerous events every day, although not entirely like QF32, where pilots save the aircraft from the effects of automation...but, a save is just part of a normal day.
The biggest problem is with partial automation - by having a pilot there to take over when the system $hits itself, but who otherwise sits and does nothing for hours on end. In other words, he's only there for when the going gets really tough, but the automation won't keep him in the loop nor will it keep his skills in practice. Unrealistically, it will expect him to go from brain dead to top of his game in an instant.
'Complete' automation may happen one day but, they will need to get it to the point where the software is 100% perfect, AND the programmers will have thought of EVERYTHING, or at the very least come up with an AI that can handle EVERYTHING. As they can't even keep my desktop computer or my iPhone on line properly, I imagine they've got quite some distance to go.
If I'm still around when it does happen, you will more than likely find me running very quickly in the opposite direction......