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.
Opponents of rapid data-center expansion planned protests at over 125 US locations on July 18, 2026, marking national-scale public backlash against AI infrastructure concentration.
Flock Safety ended its Distress Detection acoustic surveillance feature after EFF advocacy and community opposition, citing civil liberties concerns and potential illegality under state eavesdropping laws. The underlying acoustic gunshot detection network remains operational.
Zoox recalled self-driving vehicles after discovering they may fail to detect smoke, demonstrating post-deployment safety monitoring and corrective action in a deployed autonomous AI system.
The US House passed the KIDS Act to protect minors online, but EFF warns the bill prioritizes age-verification surveillance over genuine privacy protection, creating a contested governance signal on minor safety.
OpenAI's safety head Heidecke is leaving after an internal reshuffle, continuing a pattern of safety leadership departures at the frontier lab.
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.