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 Media Lab study finds AI chatbots affect users' accuracy evaluating news headlines; MIT Technology Review coverage advances mainstream discourse on AI's cognitive effects.
DeepSeek eliminated its weekend peak pricing for API users effective immediately, moving toward more consistent and equitable access terms for third-party developers building on its models.
EFF and seven civil society organizations have written to Nottinghamshire Police calling for the immediate halt of a planned live facial recognition deployment, citing biometric mass surveillance concerns and disproportionate targeting of young people.
Japan's government earmarked an additional $944 million for Rapidus, its domestic advanced AI chip manufacturer, as part of its sovereign compute strategy in the global AI chip race.
OpenAI announced zero data retention for its frontier AI models, offering customers the option to prevent their data from being stored or used for training.
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.