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.
Anthropic launched a molecular biology lab where Claude agents propose scientific hypotheses and human scientists execute experiments, illustrating augmentation-over-replacement design at a frontier AI lab.
The EFF formally opposed the SFPD's proposed drone surveillance policy, arguing it fails to protect privacy and civil liberties and could enable sweeping unspecified surveillance. The advocacy follows two years of SFPD drone expansion that has outpaced oversight, including a 2024 violation of California's AB 481 equipment acquisition law.
Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus warning of existential risks to humanity from AI, while reporting $8bn in losses on $4.6bn in revenue.
Pope Leo publicly criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over AI safety in a rare intervention as tech executives prepared for a White House meeting.
AMD announced plans to acquire World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's AI startup focused on 3D spatial AI models, for $8 billion.
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.