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.
The EFF exposes PatronScan's ID-scanning and database-sharing network at LGBTQ+ bars in SF's Castro district, raising civil society alarm about surveillance of a vulnerable community and potential violations of California's ID privacy law.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors stalled a vote on a resolution supporting California AB 2654, which bans surveillance pricing, after the SF Chamber of Commerce lobbied against it. EFF is urging supervisors to reconsider.
A TechPolicy.Press analysis exposes the prevalence of open-washing in AI and proposes four criteria to distinguish genuine open AI from marketing claims, advancing substantive public debate on open-source AI.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Group sealed approximately $950 billion in deals with global AI firms, representing massive capital concentration in AI supply chains amid South Korean government facilitation.
Samsung Electronics secured a $200 billion partnership with Broadcom to manufacture AI chips, cementing concentration of AI semiconductor supply chain manufacturing in Samsung's foundry.
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.