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 UK Financial Conduct Authority warned that regulators are in an 'arms race' with AI adoption in personal finance, calling for expanded watchdog powers as millions of consumers rely on AI tools for financial decisions.
Outgoing Trump tech adviser Sriram Krishnan told the FT that President Trump opposes heavy US AI regulation and a centralized regulatory body, reinforcing a deregulatory executive posture as AI-related public concerns grow.
EFF, Demand Progress, National Consumers League, and EPIC filed formal FTC comments opposing X Corp.'s petition to waive its 2022 privacy consent decree. The groups cited X's Grok AI model being trained on user data without meaningful consent as evidence the order remains necessary.
AI tools are enabling a surge of employment tribunal claims from UK workers, overwhelming the tribunal system and demonstrating AI's capacity to augment worker power in asserting employment rights.
Anthropic is actively closing technical loopholes that allowed Chinese engineers to access Claude despite US export controls on frontier AI models, indicating stronger compliance with the export control regime.
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.