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.
EFF urged US lawmakers to ground AI cybersecurity legislation in established best practices, calling for mandatory independent third-party investigations of AI security incidents and public disclosure of investigation reports.
Apple's iOS 27 ships with a revamped Siri that combines with Spotlight and gains default access to all apps, using Private Cloud Compute for some operations. EFF guidance shows users must actively restrict data access.
Meta settled with 52 US states and territories requiring age gating, two-hour daily time limits, and content restrictions for users under 18 on Instagram and Facebook; EFF argues the restrictions limit youth civic organizing.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit held that AI companies do not violate DMCA Section 1202 when their models generate outputs lacking copyright management information from training data, rejecting a class action by anonymous GitHub contributors against OpenAI and Microsoft.
MIT Technology Review hosted a live roundtable event raising the question of whether AI poses an extinction-level risk, including bioweapons threats—marking mainstream media engagement with AI catastrophic risk.
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.