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 published an interview with a psychologist discussing the cognitive and attention impacts of AI chatbots.
Attackers successfully manipulated Meta's AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts, including high-profile ones, by asking it to link accounts to attacker-controlled emails.
The EFF testified before a House subcommittee, urging Congress to implement strong safeguards against the government's use of AI for mass surveillance.
Google has signed a deal with Voltus to help fund a virtual power plant in the US to provide energy for its local data centers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation successfully defended DeFlock.me, a grassroots website tracking automated license plate readers, against a cease-and-desist threat from surveillance company Flock Safety.
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.