Humanein the Loop
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.

MethodologySee 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.

Norms
Laws
Design
01Safe & Transparent
+27
28
+16
23
+48
31
02Duty of Care
+8
16
+31
45
-10
43
03Human Well-being
+18
16
+50
54
-9
11
04Meaningful Work
+22
30
+3
7
-9
25
05Rights & Freedom
+53
56
+5
23
+1
9
06International Limits
+21
34
+14
38
+20
32
07Balanced Power
-16
61
+42
48
-32
58
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.aUSSep 22, 2026

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

MIT Technology Review groundbreaking investigation documents over 1,000 people who died in areas surveilled by US virtual border wall AI towers over 25 years, revealing systematic failures of the multi-billion-dollar surveillance infrastructure.

WhyMIT TR investigation docs 1k+ deaths under US border AI surveillance towers; sustains civil-society pressure on surveillance per 5.N.a.Public debate on AI surveillance and civil liberties
▲AdvancingNorms · 1.N.cUSSep 18, 2026

EFF to Lawmakers: Ground AI Cybersecurity Rules in Best Practices

EFF urged US lawmakers to ground AI cybersecurity legislation in established best practices, calling for mandatory independent third-party investigations of AI security incidents and public disclosure of investigation reports.

WhyEFF calls lawmakers to mandate independent AI incident investigations and public disclosure, advancing incident-disclosure norm.Incident disclosure as expected behavior
▼RegressingMajorDesign · 5.D.aGLOBALSep 18, 2026

How to Limit What Apple's New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27

Apple's iOS 27 ships with a revamped Siri that combines with Spotlight and gains default access to all apps, using Private Cloud Compute for some operations. EFF guidance shows users must actively restrict data access.

WhyApple iOS 27 ships Siri with deep app access by default; cloud processing via PCC not fully on-device; users must actively restrict.Privacy-preserving design defaults
◐MixedMajorLaws · 3.L.bUSSep 16, 2026

How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism

Meta settled with 52 US states and territories requiring age gating, two-hour daily time limits, and content restrictions for users under 18 on Instagram and Facebook; EFF argues the restrictions limit youth civic organizing.

Why52-state Meta settlement mandates age-appropriate design for minors; direction=0 (protection gains vs youth civic engagement tradeoff)Protections for minors
◐MixedMajorLaws · 2.L.dUSSep 16, 2026

Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim

The U.S. Ninth Circuit held that AI companies do not violate DMCA Section 1202 when their models generate outputs lacking copyright management information from training data, rejecting a class action by anonymous GitHub contributors against OpenAI and Microsoft.

Why9th Circuit: DMCA §1202 doesn't cover CMI absent from AI outputs; rejects GitHub contributor class action vs OpenAI/MSFT.Private right of action / class action enablement

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.