Abstract: Intelligence is not merely related to the mind; rather, it is a complex ability capable of adaptation, transformation, and processing data or information quickly, accurately, and creatively, while executing actions accordingly. In the struggle of evolution, only intelligent beings can survive—those with the flexibility to change, adjust, and empower themselves against the competition of existence.
In the age of posthumanism, the dominant theme is the “intelligence explosion.” All species are intelligent, growing at their own pace—whether animals, humans, plants, or any organic living being. However, in the age of intelligence explosion, we are driven into the world of machine intelligence, which is unbeatable in terms of speed, accuracy, data handling, and analysis. This is making the era of posthumanism dominated by machine intelligence, generally known as artificial intelligence. This article asks how the upcoming intelligence surge is shaping our future and what it means to survive in a posthuman world.
 
Keywords: Posthumanism, Survival, Algorithm, Optimization, Intelligence,
 
The posthuman era’s hallmark is the intelligence explosion, which is characterized by human attempts to express intelligence in technology.  Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies  by Nick Bostrom makes the case that “we are like small children playing with a bomb… the creation of superintelligent AI could be the most consequential event in human history” (Bostrom). The idea of intellectual manifestation is not limited to machines only, humans themselves want to transform their intellectual powers through genetically engineered methods. Futurists are discussing the limitless potential and consequences of humans evolving into superhumans and machines gaining artificial intelligence. Lyotard looks at this aspect of technology as a condition to human problems as well as progress but, “this development seems to be taking place by itself, by an autonomous force or ‘motricity’.  It doesn’t respond to a demand coming from human needs” (Lyotard).  This “process of complexification” (Lyotard) creates co-evolution of humans and intelligent machines are going to open up multiple dimensions in the post-human era (Cecchetto).
 
More intelligent species whether natural or man-made can have multiple levels of intelligence and have dimensions that are yet to be discovered, and  “there is no longer a horizon of universalization, of general emancipation before the eyes of postmodern man. (Lyotard) ” However, there are developers of AI machines who want to empower machines to a level that artificial intelligence can beat humans in every possible means and so there is a threat of a dystopian future and a wasteland waits for mankind. Yet, there are others who do not consider empowering machines as a threat to humanity as they consider machines help humanity by facilitating them and creating for them a utopian world. For them, the actual idea behind the creation of a world having intelligent machines is to empower humans themselves.
 
Man is the only animal which has been using tools to get control over nature, from the traditional manual method of using tools to the latest technological revolution the development is to make humans more and more powerful. At the current level of our technological revolution, the predictors of the future have a mixture of feelings based on their analysis; some people are hopeful that the technological revolution and the forms of machine intelligence can never be capable enough to capsize the human race, however, others are afraid that ever-burgeoning in the manifestation of artificial intelligence will grab all forms of powers from humans and will destroy the human race. According to Megginson, “ it is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change” (“Leon C. Megginson Quotes (Author Of Megginson Business S.G.)”).   In the emerging paradigm of human-machine coevolution, technological adaptability surpasses simple competitive survival, unveiling a complex symbiotic trajectory where adaptive resilience—defined by dynamic environmental responsiveness and systemic self-preservation—emerges as the essential factor of evolutionary dominance, questioning conventional binary distinctions between technological and biological agency.
 
Intelligence whether in humans or machines makes them smarter and more creative as they can sustain themselves in the environment. To define intelligence, it is the capability to deal with simple to complex issues at multiple levels such as abstract level, all sorts of problem-solving, decision-making, creatively controlling and manipulating the environment or situation for one’s benefit etc (Ruhl). Intelligence as an idea revolves around many personality traits, it is a homogeneous mixture of attributes that are fluid, dynamic and innovative with a tinge of creativity. Intelligence is an elementary need of living beings and it can be categorized into many other branches such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and various other forms. From this, intelligence can be assumed as a capability of survival. Moreover, Gardner has given multiple types of intelligence models. This intelligence such as linguistic, mathematical, spatial, musical, kinaesthetic intelligence, naturalist, interpersonal intelligence and intrapersonal intelligence   ( Sternberg); with all of these intelligences manifested in machines it would be a world of machines competing humans.    
 
 At the very beginning of human history man constructed tools that were inanimate and dependent on their operation upon humans these tools were handheld and required manual control in which there was no involvement of automation. The idea of tools was very empowering as they helped humans to better equip themselves with the fierceness of nature. The movie The Space Odyssey: 2001 showed the history of human innovation and evolution. The use of tools was both for violence and development. Both of the concepts are very closely linked as the idea of development has never remained peaceful. Furthermore, with automated systems machines become highly intelligent that they can make a psychological analysis of humans and can betray humans as shown in The Space Odyssey: 2001  which is a dystopian idea. Yet, machines have not reached this intelligence, we are still modifying the automated systems which have no awareness of the external realities and facts but constantly work in a loop, and many times dependent upon human intelligence and decision-making intervention whenever a loop is required to change according to the need and demand of time and external changes (Patel).
On the other hand, artificial intelligence is a simulacrum of human intelligence which is dealt with and developed in machines. Understanding the developer’s mindset can help us understand the prospect and level of machine intelligence in its performance of human-like functions that are much better in speed and accuracy. The intention behind such developers’ goals can be understood by the type of artificial intelligence they are making and this would help deconstruct the abilities of machine learning. Machines can become intelligent enough that they can automatically make decisions and calculations like humans without the need for human instructions. Based on the data available and analytical ability machines can generate logical outputs and control the external environment. The difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence is in the fact that machines are far more accurate in calculations and their speed far exceeds humans. Developers around the world are trending towards enhancing the capabilities of the machine by developing the performative functions of human beings such as processing and manipulating data they receive from their sensory parts. Likewise, Artificial intelligence has empowered machines to think, analyse and make decisions independently, which is not only good news in a utopian sense and it has also a derogative retrospective in a dystopian sense at the same time. Thus, intelligence has covered a distance from the manual capabilities of humans to the automatic abilities of machines and is now transformed into an artificially intelligent domain. 
In a postmodern world, “the narratives we tell to justify a single set of laws and stakes are inherently unjust (Lyotard, and Bennington)”. Artificial intelligence does not emerge as a haphazard event, there are various levels and domains specific to artificial intelligence and a gradual evolution of it. Initially,   reactive machines were created as the most basic forms of artificial intelligence (Patel). These machines respond/react without previous knowledge or memory whenever a stimulus or input is given to them.  These reactive machines were then designed to learn specific game skills in which through trial and error they keep on learning with a limited set of memory. IBM’s Deep Blue system was one of the first artificially intelligent computers which defeated Garry Kasparov, a chess master player.  IBM’s Deep Blue computer is a reactive machine which plays chess and becomes stimulated by each turn played by the opponent (Patel). It was the first time in human history as well as in the history of machine intelligence that a human versus machine match was won by a machine. It raised many concerns about how a chess master was so easily defeated by a computer which had learned the game of chess. Such computers were trained for one specific task. Since humans took years and years to learn a task these computers learn in a very short time. However, the developers had been working very hard in developing a problem-solving set of instructions and making the computers learn that there are various ways of reaching a solution.
Another sort of Artificial Intelligence is limited memory. With the addition of memory functions, such artificial intelligent machines can use their previous knowledge and data and react accordingly. They control the receiving data in a manner that they would only give a response or give a positive output when the input data matches stored data. Just like a filter circuit which is tuned to allow specific frequencies to pass through while halting all other frequencies. Fingerprint lock technology which is used in biometric systems or systems which require the correct password to respond is an example of limited memory. Automatic systems fall under such a category where there is limited memory on which decisions and reactions are based accordingly.
 Artificial intelligence will lead our world to a post-humanist world where we will encounter machines participating in human activities, becoming social, emotionally sensitive and decision-makers. To make machines better interact with humans, a deep analysis of the mind is updated in the machine software where machines can give friendly gestures to humans—this leads towards the theory of mind in developing artificial intelligence. Our mind perceives receives and reacts so these machines are made according to the functionalities of the brain. Our thinking comes under the psychological and cognitive patterns of thought. Psychology is itself a modern branch of science related to the functioning and processing of the brain. The developers are now working on the idea of making machines capable enough so that they can learn independent thinking just as humans can do. Many virtual assistants help and assist human beings to behave in a very human and friendly way such as Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri. Many chat virtual assistants also have created apps such as Replica. These all provide machine-related responses to human conversation and react accordingly.
The fourth type of artificial intelligence is built by working on the self-awareness of machines. The machines are not only aware of themselves but also are capable of sensing the feelings of others. Self-awareness is all about developing consciousness in machines, The movie Blade Runner depicts replicants as bioengineered humanoid, their self-awareness of their independent entity and considering human creators as their adversary makes the world dystopian (“Blade Runner – Wikipedia”). Most Sci-fi depicts the clash of interests between humans and artificially intelligent machines, however, other species of nature such as fierce animals and even aliens also come to terms with humans, their voracity usually vanishes developing an emotional bondage, or we can say their intelligence finds refuge in emotional affinity. With machines, the genre is usually cyberpunk. The way humans perceive their beings and other’s beings in terms of identifying themselves and others separately. Human consciousness is a very intricate subject matter which is still under investigation. Self-awareness creates consciousness on multiple levels and to reach the inner realities of being, man is in a continuous process of rigorous investigation to develop an understanding of himself and others. Will developers be able to create such a level of self-awareness in machines? Is a current debate. A machine with all probabilities of becoming and thinking independently would be the greatest revolution in the history of technological advancement. We are very near to this form of technological revolution without knowing the estimated consequences. 
       
Artificial intelligence is only a pastiche in which different forms of human capabilities are imitated to the extent that the speed and accuracy reached by computers are beyond human apprehension. Independence to act as artificially intelligent machines is the fear of humans, however, still computers are not independent of their developers and might not be able to create machines as a form of procreation as biological beings do. Futurist analyst Ray Kurzweil has estimated that by the year 2029 computers will be able to pass the Turing test (Vassev). Alan Turning was the first person who was interested in the machine imitation of human intelligence. He developed a system of testing in which a machine has to interact with a human without being detected as being a machine. Turning developed a research paper on the ability of machines to think, he titled his paper Can machines think? In the paper, he devised a method of checking the credibility of machine thinking and predicted that by 2045 human intelligence with the help of its machine intelligence will reach a point of singularity (Frankenfield). This might probably be the suggestion that humans will be transforming their intelligence by either genetic transformation or artificial implantation of intelligence and so the intelligence of machines and humans will be at a far extended level.
Postmodernism makes “skepticism about universalizing theories” (Lyotard, and Bennington). The debate on the survival of humans in the era of artificial intelligence makes us sceptical by bringing a counterargument about the survival of machine intelligence. The survival in future would depend upon some parameters of sustainability.  Without an ecosystem, there is no survival whether it is humans or machines. At the present level, humans have due to their greediness developed a grave environmental issue. Ever-increasing industrial pollution has destroyed marine and air quality. Deforestation has called upon global warming, land sliding, desertification and flooding. The nations of the world have joined hands together at the Conference of Parties COP to decrease carbon emissions. Human beings cannot survive without a natural ecosystem and human beings are destroying their habitation. Considering this idea, machines will also require a digital ecosystem which would be a digital infrastructure for a better connection of the devices around the world. This digital ecosystem is being developed gradually by the inventions of smart devices and smart cities. With the technology of the Internet of Things IOT the objects around us are going to become alive and capable of communicating, sending, and receiving data along with performing functions and activities. From small automatic devices such as ATMs, automatic car parking readers, IOT in transportation, detection, and smart homes, human-free places have digital networking which makes things alive. 
The building of the digital ecosystem is to connect physical things to an online platform. The physical devices absorb data from the surroundings and then connect it to an online platform, where the connection is built with the service provider, which gathers the information makes necessary processes and develops it in a user-friendly manner (Vázquez). This is a more mature advancement of the human-machine interface when there is a development of a global networking system. When the artificially intelligent machines will become wholly independent their global networking will become so profound and strong that machines will probably develop a very strong ecosystem for their survival. This seems more of a magical world for the humans now but the prospects are still hidden.  Vázquez develops the affinity between magic and technology, he gives the example of Ather Clarke as he says “ any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,”  and he further states:
Our magic brooms are home-cleaning robots; our magic mirrors are smartphones, equipped with Internet search engines that work much like all-knowing oracles, answering our questions out loud in an ersatz human voice. The value of our home appliances increasingly lies in their embedded electronics and software, enabling them to engage in a rich range of behaviours that earn them the qualifier smart.
 
We have to look at the parameters that can help in the sustainability of AI machines in the future. These parameters can help define what might be the future of the world that we are heading towards. Sustainability is the key idea here. Sustainability can be defined as, “the ability to maintain or support a process continuously over time” (Mollenkamp). According to Yuval Harari, It were homosapiens who had been able to confront all the challenges of nature and were able to sustain their future generations among all other human species (Harari). This same idea also goes with the future of how much humans will be able to sustain themselves in a world where they are developing and designing machines that can compete with them, as seen in the case of IBM’s Deep Blue, which is a limited display of the advancements of technology. Somehow there are many other debates which help us to rethink that the future is not a haphazard thing. This is what the developers are planning for the society.
 
Another aspect of posthumanism is the question of sustainability; It is the sustainability of the status quo which is flourishing by Influencing the world with artificial intelligence. The sustainability of power is one of the key traits of how long something is to last. Technology is always in the hands of the most powerful. Though it is generally considered that technology eliminates inequality, this is also a dubious statement as technology is a tool in the hands of the most powerful which they use in almost all the possible means. It is used as a means of manipulation in the dissemination of news through social media. Along with this, all the latest technologies are used for military craftsmanship, more than this, the world’s most established businesses have their accessibility to the latest technologies. AI is now indeed in our daily life. Living a manual life is extremely difficult now. By nature, humans tend towards easiness and this might be the reason that the human population is getting to rely too much on automation. Rather than going for a system that is laborious, and hard-working, we tend to easily adjust artificially intelligent machines that would help us by doing almost 90 per cent of our tasks. Without this amazing quality of AI, human development would be considered at the level of the Stone Age. AI as a field emerged through military technological research when Alan Turning was designing the first-ever machine which could apply AI logic. The level of the influential power of AI relies on how much the status quo of the world powers wanted to utilize it and for what purposes. AI is dependent on human’s intention to acquire their motives. It is not something growing organically and will far exceed all human limitations. It depends wholly upon what purpose the world powers wanted to utilize it for their motives. Tegmark also proposes the same idea that AI will only go as far as we, as human society want it to be steering (Tegmark). Tegmark wanted that our purpose of making AI should be too profound based upon humanity and to eliminate all insecurities of human beings:
We need to keep AI beneficial…One is that we should avoid an arms race and lethal autonomous weapons. The idea here is that any science can be used for new ways of helping people… AI researchers want to stigmatize and ban lethal autonomous weapons. … We should mitigate AI-fuelled income inequality. I think that if we can grow the economic pie dramatically with AI and we still can’t figure out how to divide this pie so that everyone is better off, then shame on us.
 
All the programs related to AI will continue if they develop their need in society. Likewise, as is the case with humans, persons with better capabilities are required for organizations and institutions. Organizations require a different form of working experts. If AI is going to be implemented then its functional need will be the major piece of concern to see its acceptable place within a society and it will determine its sustainability. If somehow AI is going to become a destructive force, the possibility of discarding it to be used is very probable. Since AI is still in its initial stages, if it successfully passes the initial stages and gains the trustworthiness of the human society it will be useful. However, if after attaining a much higher intellectual plane, it somehow started to disguise itself as a harmer or destroyer of humanity then it would be a threat. The seeds of destruction would then still have been implanted into the machine system by the developers at an early stage otherwise it will work the other way by further improving itself to solve the problems of the world. 
 
Technology is agnostic, and to remain sustainable it is made ethical. Let us assume this case in terms of sci-fi. Since the idea is very creative of how technological advancement will revolutionize our lives. Writers and creative artists have been depicting artificial intelligence in more malicious terms or its negative aspects. Such as the movie The Space Odyssey:2001 has shown the progress of humanity from cave life to the most advanced level of human evolution where it has been successfully created artificially intelligent machines. The intelligent spacecraft computer started to intrigue its crew members and killed them. The reason behind this pessimistic picture of the pinnacle of technology is that humans have been benefiting from its scientific knowledge but every technology comes up with its negative aspects also. It is said that economic prosperity is due to the industrial revolution but it is not without the carbon emissions which are the biggest source of global warming. Climate change has put a lot of existential trouble to humanity. The same idea goes with AI. If AI is keeping the concerns of human morality and ethics AI will behave ethically, but if there is any malicious intention fed into AI then it will surely destroy humanity. Let’s take another example. In the series Black Mirror, in the episode “Be Right Back” Martha to relieve the trauma of her husband’s death orders an android which was to fill his husband’s vacant position, but she soon realises that the Android cannot completely replace her husband’s position. Let us suppose that the company offering their Android services added malicious software and instead of supporting Martha it started to gather all the personal information and started to abuse her. The moral and ethical concerns of such technological usage in society would be less credible as such AI services will meet resistance from society more than acceptance. Hence “we can perceive the necessity of stronger engineering ethics as more and more responsibilities are placed into the hands of the developers” (Khakurel).
 
Self-reliance is another parameter for calculating how much machines will become autonomous from the stranglehold of human intervention. When machines would learn to become self -reliant then why would they be working for human beings? The debate about humans losing jobs also becomes a serious concern. If machines become autonomous, they will be establishing their ways of surviving rather than facilitating humans in any field. The nature of acceptability and adjustability would be rather different. It would then also be associated with its manufacturing company and then to live like any independent human being it must also be a citizen of a nation. Then again if it is a citizen, it also has to be allowed some rights and duties, and then a process will occur which Lyotard calls “complexification”. AI robotics would then develop for themselves a union to rebel against the human community. The probability would be endless as self-reliance for  AI should not be a complete autonomy otherwise self-awareness and independent thinking would lead to results which are incomprehensible and unpredictable. However, this idea is still very vague because the creation of AI is to facilitate, if the manufacturers and developers want to make self-reliant machines to end the labour market then they would not be making separate AI robotics and separate manufacturing machinery but rather AI would be implanted within manufacturing units. Industries, companies, and would not be like to create independent humans like robots with citizenship. If the developers still wanted to develop a self-reliant robot such as robot Sophia they also had to implant into her the ethical and moral stands of humanity. The creator of Sophia, David Hanson talks about the humanoid robot and that the purpose behind her creation is to develop interaction with humans and to utilize them in fields such as nursing elderly people, providing service in social gatherings etc. Such robots are still designed to become more and more socially developed. Such robots are intelligent enough to collect data on human emotions, in one of the interviews she also expresses her view that “robotic technology does not scare me, humans do” (Yahoo Finance).
The sustainability of humanity remains under a system of universality. For example, throughout the history of human life, we have been seeing so many wars, battles and brutalities, still, we see the emergence of international organizations and regional corporations, such as the UNO, and the League of Nations. They emerged due to the idea of humanity. The sufferings, and problems as well as human beings of all humans are the same and it requires collaboration to fulfil the needs of humans on the universal basis of humanity. Thus, the uniformity of opinion on the idea of humanity to build communities collectively is important and this idea unites human beings. The same idea if we apply AI robotics or AI machines, the developers are developing AI machines with specific purposes so they all are not made for one purpose. Every machine has its intellectual capacity and it constantly evolves in its intellectual capacity. If somehow machines can unite together to destroy the human race it cannot be all the AI robotics against the human world. There would be only a few robotics which would be able to think and plan against humanity if their self-consciousness is built and their thinking patterns are so developed to rebel against humanity. All of the world’s robotics would not be uniting on the rebellion because of their different functionalities. This still is a difficult idea and it is still the least probable because technology ultimately is in the hands of the most powerful nations. They might be trying to make humanoid robots which would look like humans and will be used as spies to send them on a mission to collect secret information or to live like an actual human being not it will be used against humanity. We cannot yet say with any authenticity how our future is going to be shaped by super-intelligent AI as Bostrom reminds us that:  
We also show that the potential for intelligence in a machine substrate is vastly greater than in a biological substrate. Machines have several fundamental advantages which will give them overwhelming superiority. Biological humans, even if enhanced, will be outclassed. (Bostrom)
The posthumanism era is yet unpredictable in its actual scale of intelligence explosion and its effects on humanity, no one has known what the future looks like yet. The current developments in the field of AI and the further planning of the developers can help to predict the future. The idea that in a world of artificially intelligent machines, the future of humans would be dark and full of suffering still seems a very limited idea. This idea should not be one to fear of. The type of AI machines depends upon the intention of the developers themselves. Since all the technological developments humans have been creating a lot of trouble due to their greed. The fears that AI would have its darker sides could not be eliminated. With time we will encounter all the benefits as well as the disadvantages of artificial intelligence.