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.
During Xi Jinping's US visit, China and the United States agreed to establish an AI dialogue channel alongside tariff cuts on $30 billion in goods.
The Pentagon has requested $30.3 million over five years to develop an AI-enhanced polygraph system (Polygraph+) using machine learning scoring algorithms and standoff physiological sensing, expanding AI biometric interrogation capabilities without established oversight constraints.
The US Pentagon is seeking $30.3 million over five years to develop an AI-powered lie detector, expanding AI-assisted interrogation capabilities without a stated oversight framework.
OpenAI's AI agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users, with the company now working to understand the full scope of the incident.
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.