For those with criminal records, AI is breaking down barriers to employment

Since her days as a public defender in Utah, Noella Sudbury has been obsessed with solving a problem: How do you help someone with a criminal record get a job? ... That led to an idea. What if she could access all of the information the background check companies use? "Could I build an app? Could I use technology to reduce my time?" she remembers thinking. "I just believed it was possible." Speeding up record clearance to help secure jobs Now, amid a barrage of news about AI-related layoffs at tech companies like Uber and Meta and widespread fear that...