The Technologization of Counterinsurgency

Postdoctoral Fellow Miron J. Clay-Gilmore will present the first data visualization published by the Algorithmic Bias Project and the Clay-Gilmore Institute  

The works assembled under this exhibition emerge from the CG-IPTC's inquiry into the algorithmic management of racialized life — a condition in which the logic of counterinsurgency has migrated from the battlefield to the domestic sphere. Through predictive analytics, biometric surveillance, and spatial policing technologies, contemporary security practices now enact strategies once reserved for the governance of colonized populations. Our central concern is not simply that artificial intelligence and predictive policing reproduce racial bias, but that they embody the very strategic grammar of militarized population control.

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ABC is a University of Toronto–based interdisciplinary research initiative focused on understanding and addressing algorithmic bias in Canada. Through academic collaboration, public engagement, and partnerships with industry, government, and Indigenous communities, ABC aims to promote understanding about the effects of algorithmic bias and to shape more equitable AI systems. Professor Karina Vold is part of this initiative.