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.
China-linked hackers conducted an unprecedented autonomous AI-powered cyber attack against Taiwan, marking the first documented offensive use of autonomous AI against state infrastructure.
The Financial Times examines how AI-driven automation threatens to displace millions of workers in India's technology outsourcing sector, elevating the AI-labor displacement debate to mainstream coverage.
UK government is backing London-based startup Cosine to build a sovereign British AI model as an alternative to dominant US frontier labs, though the startup faces far better resourced rivals.
EFF documented systematic over-enforcement by Meta's algorithmic content moderation against reproductive health information, filing a formal public comment to the Meta Oversight Board with approximately 100 documented cases of harm to healthcare providers, clinics, and advocates.
Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street giants are partnering with Nvidia to assemble a $500 billion financing package for global AI data center infrastructure.
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.