In this contributed article, Ankush Gupta and Kavya Shree of FischerJordan, explore the scope, use cases and challenges of AutoML and how data scientists and AutoML can have a future together. The authors discuss the causes driving the use of AutoML, the benefits and challenges associated, and major providers in the space. They conclude by analyzing the parts of the data science and ML process that can/cannot be automated and if AutoML will replace data scientists / both will go hand-in-hand.