>"Kids in school today will be doing jobs that don't exist yet."

Yea, and all but one job I had didn't exist when I was a kid. And my life isn't and wasn't terrible ;-)

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>Now I don't know how to advise either of them. Programming will revolutionize with AI and

I think there was just a short period of human history when schools were actually preparing for jobs. The education system will change, evolve, or become obsolete and be replaced by something different.

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>digital art has been dealt a death-blow in under a month.

Art has not been dealt a death-blow. Image generators are for sure disruptive tech, but will not kill art. Maybe in a few generations of this tech. If they will get 100x better. But even then - they will not make magically make people that like to do art not do it or they will not magically destroy Krita or paint shop pro.

As a reminder, for most of the human history art wasn't a profitable profession, and even currently most artists don't make a living out of making art.

Also, dalle/SD/midjourney didn't happen overnight. Diffusion models were first described in 2015. And that paper did build up upon a whole body of prior work.

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>All the digital art communities are fracturing because AI art is overwhelming them - the split is because some humans don't want AI art polluting their communities - but there's no way to tell what's AI art anymore.

No, not yet. AI image generators are not good enough (I use them almost daily for both work and fun) and you can easily spot issues, esp with details. But they are getting better and better.

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Overall, we are very bad at foresight, but very good at adapting to change.