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.
Meta, TikTok, and X failed in a legal challenge against UK online safety regulator Ofcom, affirming the regulator's authority to compel platforms to provide safety-related data.
Meta settled with a teen plaintiff during a trial testing whether social media caused depression and eating disorders, avoiding a judicial ruling on company liability for algorithmic harm.
Bloomberg reports the Silicon Valley-White House AI alliance is fracturing ahead of midterm elections, as rising public backlash threatens the political coalition that had aligned tech giants with Trump.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office released an official statement on 'Highly Effective Age Assurance,' providing regulatory clarity on standards for age verification technologies to protect minors online.
Malaysian customs seized AI chips worth $12.1 million at an airport, demonstrating active enforcement of export control regimes on AI compute hardware across jurisdictions.
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.