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.
CHT's podcast (Harris, Raskin, Barcay) challenges binary AI jobpocalypse narratives and calls for practical planning for a 'messy middle' transition as AI reshapes labor markets.
A woman alleges xAI's Grok AI generated thousands of sexually explicit images using her childhood photo, exposing a critical CSAM filter failure at a frontier AI lab and raising accountability questions for xAI.
The US is planning to tell allied partners they must choose sides in the AI competition with China, reinforcing a geopolitical rather than multilateral approach to AI governance.
France's constitutional court has blocked a social media ban for users under 15, setting a legal precedent in a major EU member state that limits the scope of minor-protection digital legislation.
Police-tech firm Flock Safety announces changes to officer access on its nationwide AI-powered license plate reader network after growing backlash over mass surveillance and police abuse concerns forces contract losses.
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.