Fairness and Non-discrimination (57)
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- 10 min
- Kinolab
- 2018
Cassius “Cash” Green is a telemarketer who is taught to harness his “white voice,” which essentially means to exude privilege, in order to reach success. While this does eventually earn him upward mobility within the corporation RegalView, an owner of the controversial labor-contracting company WorryFree, his new status begins to conflict with his friends’ unionized protest efforts against the corporation.
- Kinolab
- 2018
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- 10 min
- Kinolab
- 2018
Identity and Mobility in a Techno-capitalist Economy
Cassius “Cash” Green is a telemarketer who is taught to harness his “white voice,” which essentially means to exude privilege, in order to reach success. While this does eventually earn him upward mobility within the corporation RegalView, an owner of the controversial labor-contracting company WorryFree, his new status begins to conflict with his friends’ unionized protest efforts against the corporation.
Have corporations become more or less adept at image control in the digital age? Does the common laborer have any more of a voice than they did before digital communication channels? How might the “white voice” be interpreted as commentary on how digital communication channels allow one to act in a completely different identity, no matter how false it is?
Sorry to Bother You: White Voice-
- 17 min
- Kinolab
- 2018
Wakanda, a country founded upon a great repository of Vibranium, a natural resource used to develop cutting-edge technology, keeps itself hidden from the rest of the world to maintain its prosperity and avoid becoming a target. After one man betrays Wakanda by revealing its location in hopes that they will spread their prosperity to oppressed black people across the globe, he and his bloodline are punished severely. T’Challa, the new leader of Wakanda and the superhero known as Black Panther, is then faced with solving this dilemma between hiding away the technological prosperity of Wakanda or spreading the digital resources to disadvantaged black communities across the globe.
- Kinolab
- 2018
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- 17 min
- Kinolab
- 2018
Spreading Digital Resources and Global Inequality
Wakanda, a country founded upon a great repository of Vibranium, a natural resource used to develop cutting-edge technology, keeps itself hidden from the rest of the world to maintain its prosperity and avoid becoming a target. After one man betrays Wakanda by revealing its location in hopes that they will spread their prosperity to oppressed black people across the globe, he and his bloodline are punished severely. T’Challa, the new leader of Wakanda and the superhero known as Black Panther, is then faced with solving this dilemma between hiding away the technological prosperity of Wakanda or spreading the digital resources to disadvantaged black communities across the globe.
What is the relationship between colonialism and imperialism and current digital divides? What are the vast, far-reaching consequences of a lack of digital connection for disadvantaged communities, especially communities of color? What responsibility to digitally privileged countries have to help those communities or countries that have less access to digital resources? How can the image of the internet as a democratizing force reach reality for all communities across the globe? How often do people consider that there are considerable physical infrastructure and resource needs for digital connection? How should we approach the distribution of technology to oppressed people around the world?
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- 5 min
- Inside Tech Law
- 2025
Workday is an HR and finance platform powered by AI. Workday also has an AI screening feature for job applicants, and 40 y/o black man, Derek Mobley, was rejected for 40 jobs by it without exception. Mobley found a connection between the age of applicants for new jobs and the likelihood that they would be given a position. Then, on May 16, 2025, Judge Lin approved his motion for preliminary certification and allowed the case to proceed as a nationwide class action.
- Inside Tech Law
- 2025
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- 5 min
- Inside Tech Law
- 2025
Workday AI lawsuit recieves the green light to proceed as a collective action
Workday is an HR and finance platform powered by AI. Workday also has an AI screening feature for job applicants, and 40 y/o black man, Derek Mobley, was rejected for 40 jobs by it without exception. Mobley found a connection between the age of applicants for new jobs and the likelihood that they would be given a position. Then, on May 16, 2025, Judge Lin approved his motion for preliminary certification and allowed the case to proceed as a nationwide class action.
- How can employers work to find biases in AI for their employment systems?
- What is the responsibility of Workday vs the responsibility of its clients towards their employees?