Dr. Miron J. Clay-Gilmore is the Founder and Director of the Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. He is the first Black philosopher to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Clay-Gilmore’s research explores how artificial intelligence, big data, and predictive policing operate within broader regimes of counterinsurgency and state violence. His work examines the racialized logics that underpin algorithmic governance, tracing how technol…
Dr. Miron J. Clay-Gilmore is the Founder and Director of the Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. He is the first Black philosopher to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Clay-Gilmore’s research explores how artificial intelligence, big data, and predictive policing operate within broader regimes of counterinsurgency and state violence. His work examines the racialized logics that underpin algorithmic governance, tracing how technologies of surveillance and automation reproduce social hierarchies, militarized control, and the ongoing criminalization of racialized populations. By situating contemporary AI systems within longer genealogies of Western militarism and colonial administration, his scholarship reveals how the management of life and death—what he terms the technologization of counterinsurgency—defines the moral and political boundaries of modern societies.
Through the CG-IPTC, Dr. Clay-Gilmore leads a pioneering interdisciplinary initiative that integrates philosophical inquiry, data analysis, and public education to interrogate the ethical and political consequences of emerging technologies. The Institute develops research clusters, public-facing media, and digital infrastructures that expose the interconnections between technological innovation, governance, and racialized violence.
His publications have appeared in AI and Ethics, Res Philosophica, American Philosophical Quarterly, and The Journal of African American Studies. Across these works, Dr. Clay-Gilmore bridges Africana philosophy, social and political thought, and the philosophy of technology to illuminate how power, race, and computation shape the contemporary human condition.
