With more than 15 years expertise in #SEO and #Google this sounds VERY basic to me. I know, that we have a problem with (Internet / programming skills) education in Germany, but after reading your summary, I question: is the lack worldwide?!? This is SO BASIC for such a special conference! Reading that sounds to me, like it could be written 10 years ago also. 

"AI tools should assist—not replace—human creativity."

Never ever is that possible (AI is not creative for it’s own and will never be), and at the moment AI is making more mistakes than a team of humans. But the question is: will Google further rely on looking at content by humans or will they go the wrong way of AI-censorship (like Facebook does, since years now - and why X with community notes does so much better) without a first glance at the content by a human - BEFORE getting a strike!