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.
OpenAI outlined its approach to complying with EU text provenance rules, detailing how it will label AI-generated text under binding EU regulatory requirements.
OpenAI announced a new advertising format for ChatGPT, introducing ad-based monetization that embeds commercial attention-capture incentives into a widely-used AI assistant.
An OpenAI safety employee resigned, declaring 'the time for trial and error is over,' signaling continued attrition from OpenAI's safety team and concerns about the lab's approach to risk management.
The Trump administration is resisting calls for mandatory AI safeguards, defending a voluntary compliance framework even as public concerns about AI risks continue to grow.
A California court sided with AG Bonta in the RealPage algorithmic rent-pricing antitrust case, denying RealPage and landlords' motion to evade responsibility and allowing the lawsuit to proceed.
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.