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 FTC has begun enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act, launching a portal for victims to report platforms that fail to remove nonconsensual intimate images.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a new guide outlining concrete steps and human rights guarantees to help governments in the Americas combat arbitrary digital surveillance abuses.
US lawmakers have invited major tech CEOs to testify at a congressional hearing focused on children's online safety.
Social media platform X has agreed to comply with a UK regulatory crackdown on hate speech and militant content.
A looming strike at Samsung, spurred by the global AI boom, highlights growing worker mobilization and collective bargaining efforts within major tech hardware firms.
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.