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.
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.
The US Pentagon is reportedly expanding the role of artificial intelligence in setting military targets.
The US Department of Justice under the Trump administration is actively defending Elon Musk's xAI data centers in court.
The Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its upcoming AI model, indicating executive pressure to pace frontier AI deployment.
EFF and over 60 civil society organizations sent a letter to the UK government urging a halt to the planned deployment of Facial Age Estimation technology for assessing asylum-seeking children.
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.