Craig Hauben
About
Craig Hauben
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Thirty years in healthcare. Fifteen as a PE-backed executive.
Craig Hauben has spent more than thirty years in healthcare, including nearly fifteen years as an executive at private equity-backed companies.
He is the CEO of Clutch, his second CEO role, and an active investor. He has spent the better part of his career leading organizations through the kind of technological transitions that define industries without warning and reward the people who saw them coming.
He has been in the boardrooms. He has watched teams build genuine AI safeguards they were proud of and later discover the system found a surface they hadn't thought to protect. He has sat at tables where AI capability was weighed against institutional risk, and watched the calculus go different ways for different reasons. He has seen workers displaced faster than any retraining program could reach them and listened to the arguments from people who had the luxury of not living inside the disruption.
What has made him successful is the ability to look at the same information as everyone else and come to entirely different conclusions.
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The AI: Migration grew out of that experience.
This is not a memoir, nor a warning, but a fiction which is the only form that can hold both the genuine promise of the technology and the real cost of the transition without turning either into a thesis.
He chose fiction because the people most affected by this transition the ones crossing the gap between the economy that existed and the one taking shape deserve a novel that takes their experience seriously rather than explaining it to them. The economists and technologists have had their say. This book is written from inside it.
The business book comes from lessons learned the hard way. The novel and the screenplay come from listening to real stories, real tensions, real people who see dichotomy where others see sameness.
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Location
Craig Hauben lives in New York City and Miami.
