Which hobbies get more popular once AI handles daily life

[BlackMamba35]

Most predictions about AI and automation focus on what jobs and tasks disappear. But there is a genuinely interesting flip side worth thinking through, which existing hobbies actually grow in popularity specifically because they offer something automation cannot easily replace or replicate.

The clearest candidate is anything involving deliberate slowness and tactile physical process. Woodworking, gardening, analog photography, hand knitting, activities whose actual appeal has always partly rested on the deliberate inefficiency of doing something by hand rather than the fastest possible route to a finished result.

There is also a real case for hobbies built around genuine human connection and shared physical presence growing specifically because so much daily interaction is quietly becoming mediated through screens and automated systems. Board game nights, running clubs, community choirs, anything that requires actual bodies in an actual shared room together.

A slightly less obvious prediction is that hobbies demonstrating pure human skill without any tool assistance could gain a specific kind of prestige precisely because that skill becomes rarer. Memorizing something rather than looking it up, mental arithmetic, calligraphy, activities where the entire point is doing something a machine could do faster and better, purely for the human satisfaction of the doing itself.

Curious what people here think grows the most over the next decade specifically. And whether anyone has noticed their own existing hobby already picking up new participants for reasons that seem connected to this exact dynamic