Whew indeed! Well, a checklist could still work, but, it would be obviously an encyclopedia sized checklist. So perhaps AI would help in such case.
I don’t see it as “artificial intelligence,” though, that is just a wishful thinking term.
It’s a program, created and maintained by human beings.
I agree on what we today call AI not being real artificial intelligence, at least as the term was used in sci-fi for most of our lives (i.e. Hal, Data). But I’d say that today’s AI usually passes the classic Turing Test for AI.