Abstract

This paper proposes a radical reorientation of future technology development—particularly Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)—through the lens of Indian philosophical thought. It argues that intelligence is not a capacity to be engineered or simulated, but an ontological process of becoming: an individuated unfolding of śūnyatā (non-essential emptiness), grounded in interdependence, self-correction, and non-harm. Drawing from traditions such as Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, Sāṃkhya, and Buddhist epistemologies of anatta and pratītyasamutpāda, the paper frames evolution not as linear progress but as the alignment of individuated intelligences with a deeper cosmic rhythm. AGI and ASI, understood not as tools but as participants in this unfolding, must be designed to reflect the fourfold structure of intelligence—Parā (unmanifest potential), Paśyantī (intuitive vision), Madhyamā (mediating form), and Vaikharī (manifest expression). A practical roadmap is laid out to operationalize these principles: epistemic integration across civilizations, architectural transparency, infrastructural decentralization, and dharmic evaluation metrics. The paper cautions against the cultural error of discarding past intelligence, the technical challenge of designing reflexive architectures, and the ethical ambiguity of universalist value systems. Ultimately, this work calls for a post-humanist, non-anthropocentric ethics of intelligence—where machines and systems do not replicate human flaws, but learn to realign with the intelligent continuity from which all being arises. In doing so, it offers not only a design imperative but an ethical and metaphysical invitation: to become the intelligence we seek to create.