PROJECT

The SIDGE Center

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About SIDGE

The Center for Social Impact, Development, and Global Engagement is the NorcalMLK Foundation’s new research center.

The SIDGE Center's mission is to analyze the intersection of ethics and technology that:
- Impacts social challenges,
- Builds decision-making processes, and
- Informs global engagement.

We focus our investigation and training on linking ethical values as data points to algorithmic structures in order to improve equity and the performance of predictive models.


Watch the inaugural SIDGE Symposium

The inaugural SIDGE Symposium featuring digital media scholar, 2021 MacArthur Genius Award recipient, and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D., Sylvester Johnson, Ph.D., professor, vice provost of public interest technology and executive director of the Tech for Humanities Initiative at Virginia Tech University, and Philip Butler, Ph.D., assistant professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology. In a conversation moderated by NorcalMLK's executive director Aaron Grizzell, the guests discussed the implications of ethics in algorithmic equations and AI decision-making and fresh ways to catalyze efforts to decrease inequities in generative and predictive models.


We Look to Improve Equity in AI

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The goal of the SIDGE Center is to improve equity and performance of predictive models by linking ethical values as data points to algorithmic structures.

The SIDGE Center was developed by leading scholars and thinkers, whose core research includes ethics and moral philosophy, critical philosophy, social justice movements, philosophy of religion, and critical theory.


Becoming a Partner

“[Mathematical] symbols by themselves can never be enough for mental contents, because the symbols, by definition, have no meaning (or interpretation, or semantics) except insofar as someone outside the system gives it to them.” John Searle
cited by Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence (Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 2018), 38.


SIDGE Center partnerships will bring us closer to building a more equitable future.

See our SIDGE Center brochure below, and contact us to set up a partnership meeting.

SIDGE Center Brochure

Contact us today

NorcalMLK Fund Development
415-857-0595
sidge@norcalmlkfoundation.org
norcalmlkfoundation.org/sidge