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.
CXMT, China's AI memory chip maker, became China's most valuable company, signaling accelerating US-China compute competition and techno-nationalist AI development.
Stripe has completed a deal to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion, centralizing AI model routing and aggregation infrastructure under a single fintech company.
CHT's podcast (Harris, Raskin, Barcay) challenges binary AI jobpocalypse narratives and calls for practical planning for a 'messy middle' transition as AI reshapes labor markets.
Alibaba's AI model family has reached 3 billion total downloads, surpassing Meta and Google, demonstrating China's significant and growing role in the open-source AI ecosystem.
A woman alleges xAI's Grok AI generated thousands of sexually explicit images using her childhood photo, exposing a critical CSAM filter failure at a frontier AI lab and raising accountability questions for xAI.
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.