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Can AI open doors to hidden candidates?
This week on Work Is Weird Now, we’re joined by Hannah Töpler, CEO of Intrare and finalist in the She Shapes AI Awards (Future of Work category).
While companies struggle to fill frontline roles, millions of capable people remain locked out of formal employment — including refugees, migrants, single parents, LGBTQ+ candidates and older workers.
Hannah is building a different kind of hiring system — one that uses AI not to filter people out, but to bring them in.
We explore why traditional recruitment systems are fundamentally biased, how AI has often made this worse, and what it takes to design technology that actively reduces inequality rather than scaling it.
From WhatsApp-based hiring journeys to AI that questions its own decisions, Intrare is rethinking what inclusive hiring looks like at scale — growing from supporting 200 people a year to over 25,000 candidates globally.
But this episode goes beyond one company.
It asks a bigger question:
If AI reflects the world as it is, can we design it to build the world as it should be?
This conversation is for anyone thinking about the future of hiring, AI bias, and who gets access to opportunity in the next era of work.