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.
Anthropic is close to formally hiring Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as lead underwriters for a planned $2 trillion IPO, marking the frontier AI lab's move toward public capital markets.
Two of America's largest school districts have imposed moratoriums on AI use, providing institutional protective action for millions of student users.
On 5 September 2026, the Council of Europe marked two years since opening its AI Framework Convention for signature with an anniversary conference advancing implementation of the first binding multilateral AI treaty.
The Financial Times examines how Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust external-trustee structure faces intensified public scrutiny after a $2 trillion IPO, testing whether mission-driven governance survives public-market pressures.
US Republican lawmakers have revolted against Flock AI's surveillance technology, intensifying a bipartisan tech backlash around AI-enabled law-enforcement surveillance.
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.