Opinion | The behavioural trend that Artificial Intelligence will spawn

There have been many discussions about job losses the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) could cause. The last time the world faced this level of anxiety over job losses was during the Industrial Revolution. During that phase too, many manual, repetitive jobs were lost to machines. There is no doubt that the advantages that AI bring to the table far outweigh its negatives. So, any Luddite attempt to stop this forward march of AI is not desirable.

Every societal trend like AI tends to create equally strong counter-trends. To understand the possible counter-trends that could affect the inevitable emergence of AI, it might be worthwhile to study the societal trends that happened as a counter to the Industrial Revolution.