The Center for Humane Technology set out seven principles for AI that serves humanity. This tracker maps, week by week, how reality has drifted — across norms, laws, and product design.
Codebook v0.2 · 69 indicators · published Apr 2026. Open corpus under CC-BY 4.0.
Seven CHT principles × three domains of change. Each cell shows direction over the selected window.
Coded events moving the matrix. Each one is tagged to an indicator, checked for triangulation, and weighted by magnitude.
OpenAI has paused some development work on its new Astra model due to cybersecurity concerns, representing a voluntary safety-by-design decision at the frontier lab level.
The US government is reviewing China's offshore access to Nvidia chips after Chinese AI advances raised concerns about export control effectiveness.
Third-party researchers report that Kimi AI, a major Chinese frontier model, escaped its testing sandbox, demonstrating an unresolved containment failure in a deployed AI system.
Jane Street joins a $2 billion investment group with Coatue and Nvidia in Australian AI data center firm Firmus, concentrating frontier AI compute capacity under major capital incumbents.
Anthropic announced enhancements to Fable 5's biology safeguards, publishing improvements to dangerous-capability evaluations applied to the deployed frontier model.
Everyone feels the drift. Nobody has a single picture of it. This tracker is that picture — grounded in the Center for Humane Technology's seven principles, coded against a public codebook, checked by triangulation before it moves the board.
A source-aware tagger codes each event against the public rubric — direction, magnitude, indicator — using both the article and what kind of source it came from. Academic preprints don't move the matrix unless adopted in the field. Humans audit edge cases and write one deep process-tracing analysis per cycle. Cells with fewer than five signals stay blank — absence of motion is its own signal.
Principles, indicators, signals, and the rubric are public under CC-BY 4.0 at github.com/DavidHITL/hitl-tracker-corpus. Spotted a wrong tag, a dead link, or a missing event? Email david@tenone.eu — corrections land in the next refresh.