The AI Roadmap Tracker · v0.2

Are we creating the AI that serves humanity?

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.

Methodology See the matrix ↓

Codebook v0.2 · 69 indicators · published Apr 2026. Open corpus under CC-BY 4.0.

The Matrix

Seven CHT principles × three domains of change. Each cell shows direction over the selected window.

Window: 1Y · Geography: Global. Cells with fewer than 2 signals show “insufficient data” rather than forcing a direction.

The Signal Stream

Coded events moving the matrix. Each one is tagged to an indicator, checked for triangulation, and weighted by magnitude.

All signals →

▲AdvancingNorms · 5.N.aUSJul 17, 2026

Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio "Distress Detection" of Human Voices

Flock Safety ended its Distress Detection acoustic surveillance feature after EFF advocacy and community opposition, citing civil liberties concerns and potential illegality under state eavesdropping laws. The underlying acoustic gunshot detection network remains operational.

WhyEFF advocacy won: Flock Safety ended audio distress detection rollout; validates civil society pressure norms on AI surveillance.Public debate on AI surveillance and civil liberties

◐MixedLaws · 3.L.bUSJul 15, 2026

Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13

The US House passed the KIDS Act to protect minors online, but EFF warns the bill prioritizes age-verification surveillance over genuine privacy protection, creating a contested governance signal on minor safety.

WhyUS House passed KIDS Act advancing minor protection; EFF flags surveillance-over-privacy trade-off, making direction contested under CHT.Protections for minors

▼RegressingMajorDesign · 2.D.aUSJul 11, 2026

OpenAI Safety Head Heidecke to Leave Firm After Reshuffle: Wired

OpenAI's safety head Heidecke is leaving after an internal reshuffle, continuing a pattern of safety leadership departures at the frontier lab.

WhyOpenAI safety head departs after reshuffle; pattern of safety leadership attrition signals safety-by-design deprioritization at frontier labSafety-by-design practices

▲AdvancingNorms · 5.N.bGLOBALJul 10, 2026

Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay—Accountability Must Keep Pace

EFF documents systemic failures in automated content moderation—including Meta's 77% misidentification of Arabic-language content—and calls for transparency, cultural competence, and appeals processes.

WhyEFF exposes documented algorithmic bias in auto-moderation: Arabic-language 77% false deletion; calls for transparency, appeals.Attention to algorithmic harms

▼RegressingMajorDesign · 7.D.bUSJul 10, 2026

Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to $350 Billion in AI Spending Spree

Major US tech companies have doubled their combined debt load to $350 billion to fund AI infrastructure, accelerating capital concentration in the sector.

WhyBig Tech doubles aggregate debt to $350B for AI; incumbents lock in capital concentration, crowding out decentralized alternatives.Decentralized and federated architectures

Why this exists

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.

How it moves

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.

Open corpus

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.