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.
Meta reached a $17B settlement with 52 state AGs mandating age gates on Instagram and Facebook for minors, but EFF argues the deal increases surveillance for all users, expands parental monitoring of teens, and requires more data collection rather than less.
ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox face stricter EU content moderation requirements under the Digital Services Act, with obligations for risk assessments, algorithmic transparency, and user redress.
China's government has rebuked Anthropic and set preconditions for the key US-China AI governance dialogue, introducing friction into the bilateral AI cooperation framework.
California legislature passed AB 1709 banning social media platforms from deploying algorithmic recommendation features to users under 16; EFF urges Governor Newsom to veto on free speech grounds.
OpenAI announced it will stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding tool now owned by SpaceX, escalating its feud with Elon Musk through selective API access revocation.
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.