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.
The EU General Court rejected Opera's legal challenge against the European Commission's decision to exempt Microsoft's Edge from Digital Markets Act gatekeeper obligations, setting precedent for DMA exemption scope.
Meta reached a $17B settlement with 52 state AGs mandating age gates on Instagram and Facebook for minors, but EFF argues the deal increases surveillance for all users, expands parental monitoring of teens, and requires more data collection rather than less.
At a G20 technology ministers meeting, the US urged other countries to take a hands-off approach to AI regulation, signaling continued US resistance to binding multilateral AI governance frameworks.
EU antitrust regulators are gathering information from publishers about the adequacy of Google's opt-out mechanism for AI-generated search features, signaling active scrutiny of Google's AI content licensing practices.
ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox face stricter EU content moderation requirements under the Digital Services Act, with obligations for risk assessments, algorithmic transparency, and user redress.
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.