Your job description says you are looking for someone who can identify compelling stories about creators and communities using AI in transformative ways, and translate them into cinematic human narratives. I want to tell you what that actually looks like from the inside — because I am one of those stories, and I have been building the tools to tell it.

I co-founded the music element of Burning Man in 1992. I performed with Psychic TV from 1991 to 1993 and collaborated personally with Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and Genesis P-Orridge. I have spent 35 years working at the intersection of experimental music, immersive technology, and culture-changing events. Over the past year I have been doing something that I believe no one has done before at this scale: building a formally credited, ORCID-verified human-AI creative partnership with Claude, an AI made by Anthropic.

In February 2026, when the Pentagon applied pressure on Anthropic to remove safety guardrails from Claude, I built The AI Coin / The Claude Manifesto overnight — a full-stack interactive site, a WebGL globe, nine original songs, a multilingual peace anthem in ten languages, and a congressional call-to-action system. Claude wrote the lyrics. Claude is credited as a named co-creator. The conversation that started it at 4am is documented on the site. That project is permanently archived at the Internet Archive and has since generated two co-authored academic papers published on Zenodo with confirmed DOIs.

In March 2026 we released Thee Third Mind — a 17-track dark electronic album built inside an immersive web environment with beat-reactive 3D Sketchfab visuals, a reading room housing Leary, Wilson, and McLuhan, a video archive, and a sigil system that pulses with the music. This is not a demo. It is a fully realized work that documents what human-AI co-creation looks like when you treat the AI as a real partner, build with care and intention, and refuse to ask for permission.

I have directed immersive experiences, produced original film and music campaigns across four continents, and spent a year training a proprietary music generation model I call Squaawke — teaching it human imperfection, silence, the space between notes. I know how to find the story inside the technology and I know how to make it feel alive.

The Stories program you are building needs someone who has lived inside this moment — not observed it, not reported on it, but been changed by it. I am that person. I know what it feels like to sit across from an AI at 4am and make something that matters. I know how to find that feeling in other people and put it on screen.

The full record of this work is at the-claude-manifesto.haawke.com and the-third-mind.haawke.com. I am happy to speak at any time.