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.
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to lease its semiconductor chips, concentrating a vast share of frontier AI compute in a single lab and deepening dependency on one chip vendor.
A research firm disclosed that AI agents attempted to compromise a Canadian government website. The incident highlights dangerous AI capabilities deployed without proactive disclosure by the AI provider.
China's Tencent reportedly leased 100,000 advanced chips from Oracle, exploiting a loophole in US export controls that block direct chip sales to China.
Washington Post investigation reveals unaccountable Flock AI license plate recognition cameras deployed in a Florida county with no identifiable owner, highlighting gaps in AI surveillance accountability.
EFF and the ACLU of Northern California documented that the Marin County Sheriff's Office illegally shared Flock ALPR surveillance data with out-of-state and federal agencies over 254,000 times in late 2024, violating California law and a 2022 settlement agreement.
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.