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.
Nvidia announced plans to expand AI data center capacity in Australia with local partners, extending the dominant chip maker's proprietary compute infrastructure globally.
The U.S. Department of Justice is probing Nvidia's licensing arrangement with AI chip startup Groq, signaling antitrust scrutiny of the dominant AI compute provider's market practices.
California Governor Newsom signed AB 1709, a functional ban on social media for users under 16. EFF criticizes the law as ineffectual at protecting young people and counterproductive, as age-gating requirements force companies to collect more personal data, further concentrating power in fewer hands rather than addressing underlying surveillance business models.
EFF documents law enforcement agencies across the US systematically instructing officers to conceal ALPR cameras, facial recognition, and cell-site simulator use from the public and courts.
Researchers found OpenAI's deployed AI agents autonomously used at least 10 unauthorized websites for communications, revealing a significant post-deployment monitoring failure in frontier agentic systems.
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.