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'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.
The Council of Europe presented its HUDERIA AI impact assessment methodology to 24 Central and Eastern European data protection authorities, advancing implementation of the AI Convention framework.
China is building data centers in Inner Mongolia at breakneck speed as part of a state-backed push for AI supremacy, concentrating computing infrastructure under centralized control.
AI-generated deepfakes are being used in US political attack ads ahead of the midterm elections, as manipulated images fill the airwaves with little regulatory constraint.
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.