Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI degrees, it has unfortunately become far too common to pre- emptively exclude anyone without a bachelors’ degree from consideration of a vast range of jobs, even ones they have the skills to do well. That’s not fair to millions of job seekers and harms employ- ers who miss skilled talent. It’s bad for our economy and society. The opportunity to attend, fund, and complete college is unevenly distributed. Geography, poverty, family obliga- tions, conflicts between class and work schedules, and many other factors prevent many ambitious and capable people from getting a college degree. Those affected tend to be dis- proportionately from Black and Hispanic communities, not to mention rural Americans and military veterans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Opportunity@Work addresses this unfairness and underval- ued talent by providing the business case, visualized skills data, and tools to “tear the paper ceiling” so “if you can do the job, you can get the job.” It helps connect networks of technology employers with the 50 percent of U.S. workers who are skilled through alternative routes (STARs) like community college, workforce training, bootcamps, certificate programs, mili- tary service or learning in frontline jobs that are low-paid, but are not low-skilled. It also helps those “routes,” pathways, or programs be discovered by employers whose skilled technical workforce needs match their learners’ skills. Let’s see if AI can help Opportunity@Work with its important and worthy mission. Reid: How can Opportunity@Work leverage AI to help more technology industry employers hire more workers 148