Paradoxes of Being

The development of AI and the cyber-physical systems that typify it has yet to be theorized as a product of shifts in Western epistemology, or have its historical links to the American military-technological revolution of the mid-20th century explored in any rigorous manner. To fill this gap in knowledge, we argue that Sylvia Wynter's framework of MAN reveals the philosophical underpinnings of and links between Western liberal humanism, modern scientific inquiry, and racist philosophical anthropology that can explain the contemporary symbiosis between these and the application of new predictive, data, and AI technologies today by Western-Liberal security apparati.