About the Institution

The Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) was founded by Dr. Miron J. Clay-Gilmore to examine how technological and military systems reproduce racial hierarchies across the modern world.

As the first philosophical institute dedicated to studying race, computation, and population-level targeting, CG-IPTC explores how war, data, and governance merge in the algorithmic age.

Rooted in the traditions of Africana philosophy and Black radical thought, our work reveals how the global infrastructures of control—once physical—have become digital, statistical, and increasingly invisible.

Meet the Founder

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 examines how artificial intelligence, big data, and predictive policing sustain racial hierarchies and counterinsurgent forms of governance. His work situates contemporary algorithmic systems within the historical continuum of militarism, surveillance, and state violence, revealing how digital technologies reproduce the logics of control and dispossession. Through the CG-IPTC, he leads interdisciplinary research and public initiatives that investigate the ethical and political implications of technological power.

His publications have appeared in AI and Ethics, Res Philosophica, American Philosophical Quarterly, and The Journal of African American Studies.