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.
A TechPolicy.Press analysis exposes the prevalence of open-washing in AI and proposes four criteria to distinguish genuine open AI from marketing claims, advancing substantive public debate on open-source AI.
Nvidia and Microsoft jointly called for open-weight AI models following the success of Kimi, advocating for more accessible frontier model releases.
Xi Jinping is advancing AI diplomacy to win over Global South nations, offering what Beijing calls its most ambitious proposal to build an alternative global AI governance order.
An Indian transgender person's experience with Meta's AI-powered smart glasses being used without consent fueled civil society backlash and advanced public debate on AI-enabled surveillance and privacy rights.
Brookings Institution analysis argues tech firms should proactively address AI-related job concerns and invest in skill development programs.
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.