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 announced it will stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding tool now owned by SpaceX, escalating its feud with Elon Musk through selective API access revocation.
EFF, Access Now, and Data Privacy Brasil jointly published recommendations for stronger privacy and data protection in Brazil's 2026 elections, addressing AI-generated content's role in spreading electoral disinformation.
Tencent launched an open-source AI model for coding and research tasks, broadening access to frontier-class AI capabilities beyond closed-source providers.
The FTC finalized consent orders requiring Cox Media Group and two other firms to pay $930,000 total for falsely claiming to offer an AI service that targeted ads based on consumer conversations captured from smart devices, without legitimate opt-in.
OpenAI and Anthropic jointly called for improved cyber defense measures, framing their AI capability advances as necessitating government and private-sector security investment.
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.