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Full Biography

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 and an active investor — his second CEO role — and 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.

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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.

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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. The novel follows two brothers: one a tech CEO who built the best version of an AI-powered platform he believed in, and one who quietly built a homestead in Arkansas that nobody believed he would ever need. Every AI incident in the book is drawn from documented real-world events. The damage is not imaginary. Neither is the possibility of abundance on the other side of it.

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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.

Craig lives in New York City and Miami.