The AI Roadmap Tracker · v0.2

Are we creating the AI that serves humanity?

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.

Methodology See the matrix ↓

Codebook v0.2 · 69 indicators · published Apr 2026. Open corpus under CC-BY 4.0.

The Matrix

Seven CHT principles × three domains of change. Each cell shows direction over the selected window.

Window: 1Y · Geography: Global. Cells with fewer than 2 signals show “insufficient data” rather than forcing a direction.

The Signal Stream

Coded events moving the matrix. Each one is tagged to an indicator, checked for triangulation, and weighted by magnitude.

All signals →

▲AdvancingNorms · 5.N.aEUROPEAug 21, 2026

EFF and Civil Society Groups Call on Nottinghamshire Police to Halt Live Face Recognition

EFF and seven civil society organizations have written to Nottinghamshire Police calling for the immediate halt of a planned live facial recognition deployment, citing biometric mass surveillance concerns and disproportionate targeting of young people.

WhyEFF-led coalition of 8 civil society orgs calls Nottinghamshire Police to halt LFR; sustained civil pressure on AI surveillance.Public debate on AI surveillance and civil liberties

◐MixedMajorDesign · 5.D.aGLOBALAug 19, 2026

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI announced zero data retention for its frontier AI models, offering customers the option to prevent their data from being stored or used for training.

WhyOpenAI offers opt-in zero data retention; not a platform default; limited advance on minimization-defaults indicator.Privacy-preserving design defaults

◐MixedLaws · 2.L.cUSAug 19, 2026

FTC Seeks Comment on Enforcement Policy Statement Regarding Personalized Pricing

The FTC is seeking public comment on a proposed enforcement policy statement addressing personalized pricing—the use of personal data to set individualized prices—outlining agency legal concerns with algorithmic price discrimination.

WhyFTC seeks comment on personalized-pricing enforcement policy; formal step on data-driven price discrimination, not yet binding.Consumer protection enforcement against deceptive AI claims

▲AdvancingNorms · 1.N.aGLOBALAug 18, 2026

We still don't know how people are really using AI

MIT Technology Review reports that AI companies including Anthropic and OpenAI only release usage data they choose to share, with researchers calling for independent access to corroborate how people actually use products like Claude and ChatGPT.

WhyMIT Tech Review surfaces selective AI usage data disclosure by Anthropic/OpenAI; researchers call for independent corroboration.Public expectation of transparency on AI capabilities

▼RegressingMajorDesign · 3.D.cEUROPEAug 18, 2026

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's advertising product to European markets, bringing ad-supported monetization to frontier AI across the EU.

WhyOpenAI expands ad-supported ChatGPT to Europe, introducing ad-engagement incentives into a frontier AI product at scale.Attention respect in UX

Why this exists

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.

How it moves

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.

Open corpus

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.