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.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by University of Arizona graduates during a commencement speech when he told them their task was to help shape AI, highlighting growing public skepticism toward AI hype.
Chinese local police forces are upgrading the country's extensive surveillance infrastructure with advanced AI tracking systems.
MIT Technology Review published an analysis pushing back against the panic over AI replacing white-collar jobs, noting a lack of evidence for large-scale displacement.
MIT Technology Review published an analysis highlighting the nuanced impact of AI on the labor market, specifically focusing on the weakening of entry-level career opportunities rather than mass unemployment.
MIT Technology Review published an analysis pushing back against the prevailing narrative that AI will inevitably decimate white-collar jobs.
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.