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.
A federal court in New York issued a summary judgment ruling that OPM violated the Privacy Act by disclosing millions of federal employees' personal records to DOGE agents, with a court remedy still to be determined.
EFF calls for courts and state legislatures to require police to obtain warrants before searching automated license plate reader (ALPR) data, arguing that these AI-powered surveillance systems build searchable location records of nearly everyone and must be subject to judicial oversight.
A federal district court allowed EFF's lawsuit (on behalf of UAW, CWA, AFT) to proceed challenging the Trump administration's AI-driven surveillance of noncitizens' social media speech.
A federal court allowed EFF's lawsuit challenging the 'Catch and Revoke' AI surveillance program—which used AI to monitor online speech and revoke visas of government critics—to proceed, marking a procedural win for civil liberties against AI-enabled speech suppression.
A DHS Inspector General audit found TSA's facial recognition vendor accessed sensitive passenger biometric data without TSA knowledge, revealing significant oversight gaps. EFF reports TSA concurred with all three OIG recommendations to improve data protection and transparency.
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.