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.
CoreWeave is repricing a $2.6 billion loan backed by Anthropic revenue commitments, deepening frontier-lab compute dependency on a single cloud provider and accelerating AI infrastructure centralization.
Microsoft disclosed over $130 billion in newly signed data center leases, representing a massive concentration of AI compute infrastructure among hyperscale incumbents with strategic consequences for who can train and serve frontier AI.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a probe into Microsoft for raising prices tied to its Copilot AI product, marking a significant application of antitrust conduct rules to AI market behavior in a Tier-1 jurisdiction.
The EFF exposes PatronScan's ID-scanning and database-sharing network at LGBTQ+ bars in SF's Castro district, raising civil society alarm about surveillance of a vulnerable community and potential violations of California's ID privacy law.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors stalled a vote on a resolution supporting California AB 2654, which bans surveillance pricing, after the SF Chamber of Commerce lobbied against it. EFF is urging supervisors to reconsider.
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.