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.
MIT Technology Review examines whether open AI models' benefits outweigh their security risks, citing Anthropic's report flagging GLM-5.3 as a major cyberattack risk, surfacing substantive public debate where neither side monopolizes the framing.
MIT Technology Review investigates AI labs purchasing training data archives from defunct startups, raising public questions about training data provenance, consent, and the lack of transparency in how AI models are built.
An Oklahoma federal court ruled ALPRs constitute mass surveillance requiring 4th Amendment warrant protection, while a California trial court dismissed EFF's parallel ALPR challenge. Conflicting outcomes leave the legal status of warrantless AI-powered license plate surveillance unsettled.
MIT Technology Review's newsletter reports AI breakthroughs in robotics won't change everyday life soon, challenging the hype around humanoid robots and calling for measured expectations.
FTC distributes $15.8M to consumers misled by Cleo AI's deceptive cash advance marketing and obstructive cancellation practices, enforcing against dark patterns in an AI-branded consumer app.
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.