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.
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.
AI labs are acquiring training data from defunct startups, raising questions about data provenance, consent, and the transparency of AI training pipelines.
EFF won a court battle against the federal government's DOGE-driven pooling of federal workers' personal data, advancing civil society pressure on AI-enabled government surveillance.
EFF published 800+ pages of government records via FOIA revealing Medicare's WISeR AI prior authorization program had a rushed rollout, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm, with inadequate human oversight of AI-driven medical decisions.
EFF calls out Meta's AI content moderation failures during US midterm early voting and Brazil's election, urging platforms to implement stronger accountability systems for democratic integrity.
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.