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.
MIT Technology Review profiles children's emotional bond with Moxie, the AI robot companion, examining mental health and developmental harms when AI companions are shut down.
World Liberty Financial, a Trump-linked crypto firm, is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture to offer AI models from Chinese companies the US administration has flagged for national security concerns, potentially circumventing the intent of US export controls on Chinese AI.
Germany's regulatory authority has announced that Apple will revise its app data consent policies, requiring improved user control over data sharing—a regulatory intervention compelling one of the largest app platform operators to surface user privacy rights more clearly in its ecosystem.
CXMT, China's AI memory chip maker, became China's most valuable company, signaling accelerating US-China compute competition and techno-nationalist AI development.
Nvidia has announced it will provide a financial guarantee of up to $105 billion to support OpenAI's Ohio data center operations, significantly deepening the compute dependency between the two dominant AI infrastructure actors and accelerating centralization of frontier AI infrastructure.
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.