The AI Roadmap Tracker · v0.2

Are we creating the AI that serves humanity?

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.

Methodology See the matrix ↓

Codebook v0.2 · 69 indicators · published Apr 2026. Open corpus under CC-BY 4.0.

The Matrix

Seven CHT principles × three domains of change. Each cell shows direction over the selected window.

Window: 1Y · Geography: Global. Cells with fewer than 2 signals show “insufficient data” rather than forcing a direction.

The Signal Stream

Coded events moving the matrix. Each one is tagged to an indicator, checked for triangulation, and weighted by magnitude.

All signals →

▲AdvancingMajorLaws · 5.L.cUSJun 29, 2026

Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People's Location Data

The US Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States that Fourth Amendment privacy protections extend to location data from phone apps, even for short-term surveillance. The ruling restricts geofence warrants and establishes that app-generated records belong to users, with broad implications for digital privacy enforcement.

WhySCOTUS Chatrie ruling extends 4th Amendment to app location data; warrant required for short-term geofence surveillance.Data protection strengthening

▲AdvancingNorms · 4.N.cGLOBALJun 29, 2026

AI agents are not your "coworkers"

MIT Technology Review's Algorithm newsletter critiques the trend of companies naming AI tools 'coworkers,' arguing it obscures AI's labor displacement implications.

WhyMIT TR pushes back on AI-agents-as-coworker framing; advances nuanced public discourse on AI labor implications.Public skepticism toward AI replacement rhetoric

◐MixedLaws · 3.L.bUSJun 29, 2026

EFF to Gov. Pritzker: Veto Illinois' HB 5511

The Illinois legislature passed HB 5511, imposing device-level age-gating across online platforms. EFF is urging Gov. Pritzker to veto it, citing privacy harms and free speech concerns that could harm the young people it aims to protect.

WhyIL HB 5511 passed legislature; age-gating for minors but forces platform age collection, trading privacy for protection. EFF urges veto.Protections for minors

▲AdvancingNorms · 5.N.aUSJun 26, 2026

EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a campaign urging Grindr to make privacy the default and stop training AI on users' private data without explicit consent.

WhyEFF campaigns for Grindr to implement privacy-by-default and stop training AI on sensitive user data without opt-in consent.Public debate on AI surveillance and civil liberties

▲AdvancingNorms · 5.N.aUSJun 25, 2026

Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that local police agencies using Flock Safety automated license plate readers can subscribe to an ICE-populated hotlist to scan for immigrants.

WhyEFF exposes local police use of Flock Safety ALPRs to scan for immigrants, increasing civil society scrutiny on automated surveillance.Public debate on AI surveillance and civil liberties

Why this exists

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.

How it moves

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.

Open corpus

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.