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.
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.
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.
EFF analysis exposes police using nonsensical justifications ('LOL', 'idk') to access Flock Safety ALPR databases, highlighting systemic lack of accountability in AI-powered surveillance.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly calls for a brake on LLM development pace, citing looming dangers, signaling a shift in frontier lab risk discourse.
EFF analyzes Amazon Ring's TAKE encryption: Ring servers receive 24-hour key access to decrypt footage for AI-powered features (smart alerts, video search), then delete the key. EFF finds it a marginal improvement but not real privacy-by-design.
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.