The Center for Humane Technology set out seven principles for AI that serves humanity. This tracker maps, week by week, how far reality has drifted from them — across norms, laws, and product design.
Codebook v0.1 · 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 European Commission proposed measures under the Digital Markets Act to mandate Google's sharing of search engine data with third parties.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation published an updated guide to help journalists and advocates identify and report on surveillance technology deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a blog series reflecting on how the 2011 Arab uprisings inadvertently fueled a global boom in state surveillance, including the rise of AI-driven biometrics and facial recognition.
Tech nonprofits, including the EFF and CDT, filed comments opposing a proposed GSA procurement rule that would require AI contractors to license their systems for "all lawful purposes," arguing it could enable mass surveillance.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a report to the UN OHCHR detailing how new digital regulations and surveillance technologies, including biometric monitoring, are being used to restrict the fundamental rights of human rights defenders globally.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation publicly criticized Google and Amazon for failing to address human rights and surveillance risks associated with their Project Nimbus AI cloud contract with the Israeli government.
Civil liberties advocates and journalists exposed that automated license plate readers are being used for traffic enforcement, contradicting vendor claims.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit against CMS seeking transparency on the AI algorithms used to evaluate Medicare prior authorization requests.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published a newsletter and podcast episode raising privacy concerns about Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses and their surveillance capabilities.
The European Parliament approved the European Union's conclusion of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence.
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.
An LLM tags each event to an indicator, direction, and magnitude. A human confirms edge cases and writes 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. Disagree with a coding? The rationale is on each signal. Pull requests welcome once the repository goes public.