Do you think Artificial Intelligence and robots will eliminate the need for movie scriptwriters?

No. Machines can't have imagination, vision and an instinct for such things.

No, I don't

No robots are incapable of creativity

I really like the answer Anonymous provided, but to expand on the premise a little bit...

There are really only 7 story archetypes, which are:

Overcoming the Monster.

Rags to Riches.

The Quest.

Voyage and Return.

Comedy.

Tragedy.

Rebirth.

Bearing this in mind, the previously-mentioned answer by Anonymous, and how formulaic Hollywood scripts have grown in the last 15-20 years, I'd say AI-generated movie scripts could happen sooner than most anticipate.

Not anytime soon, but eventually.

When you put the core theories together, it's an inevitable outcome. Add to that observations about the work products of modern scriptwriters, and the way-ahead to get there becomes obvious.

The core theory says that "all the stories of human drama that can be told, have been told; all that changes are the people, places and technology." If that's the case, then we're dealing with a finite set and combinatorics to form the basic plot and storyline. Beyond that, the places and technology selection relative to the story line is just a matching problem. The only twist would be to incorporate an awareness of "anachronism" into the AI matching approach -- that way movies like "First Knight", "Black Knight" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" become part of the solution set.

On top of that, it's just another set/combinatoric problem - by exploiting the human taxonomies for "eras" to help sort people, places and technology, familiarity can be properly simulated.

The only real creativity left is naming the main characters. But given that the competing algorithms came up with "Corbin Dallas" and "Jar Jar Binks", it shouldn't be too difficult for the AI to do better. XD

Too many modern screenwriters are basically just an AI machine as it is. Art is dependent upon life experience. Maybe one day AI will have it's place, but until a machine is more complex than an intelligent human brain, it is counterproductive for them to eliminate scriptwriters.