"All accountants are bookkeepers, but not all bookkeepers are accountants". The primary function of a bookkeeper is to enter in all of the transactions relevant to any particular business. Usually, this is performed by going through bank statements and journalizing the information (commonly through Quickbooks). Then, to ensure all of the information is both correct and complete, a bookkeeper performs a reconciliation to double-check their work. Some aspects of this is automated today. For example, Quickbooks can automatically download and assist with categorizing the transactions. However, Quickbooks cannot reconcile to ensure correctness nor completion.
What about accountants? What do they do? Accountants understand the debits and credits of each transaction. Why is this important? Because not all transactions are recorded on bank statements. Some transactions occur outside of the entity (think escrow accounts), other transactions never affect cash (think depreciation). Therefore, accountants must be able to not only function as bookkeepers, but also understand the double-sided entry accounting system. Furthermore, accountants must be able to manipulate the financial information to fit whatever purpose that information is needed for. For example, each year - the business must file income taxes. The financial information must be compiled in a way that makes sense for the income tax return preparation. What if the business needs to be audited? Then the financial information must be compiled in a way that it makes sense to auditors (usually in what is known as US GAAP). So on and so forth.
Accounting is the area that is hard to automate. Artificial intelligence (as it stands today) cannot discern between the numerous nuances that goes into accounting. It can, however, categorize transactions based on historic information (a powerful tool that saves you time!), but a human operator is still required to ensure the information is correct and complete. It is the functions of an "accountant", the understanding of debits and credits, that will not only serve you better as a career path, but also make you irreplaceable when the robots come to take our jobs. Add to that an auxiliary knowledge of taxation or financial reporting, and you'll retain work long-term.