Installing telecommunications distribution systems is safe.
No robot is installing fiber optic cable, or UTP cable for that matter, terminating, testing, fire stopping where smoke tight compliance is required by fire code, etc.
Network monitoring is an area where AI can make great strides. Especially if it can reduce false positive alerts for just about any kind of network monitoring software.
To that end, anyone interested in that field should go to bicsi.org and look at their course offerings. Highly recommended.