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 European Commission began enforcing EU AI Act rules and transparency requirements on 2 August 2026, activating binding conformity assessment obligations for high-risk AI systems across the EU.
Chinese military researchers are using US AI models to train defense systems, indicating that US export controls on frontier AI are being circumvented and that dangerous-capability AI is reaching military applications in China.
A German court ruled that AI music generation company Suno violated copyright law, assigning legal liability to an AI developer for training data use — establishing European precedent for AI copyright liability.
Chime Financial is laying off approximately 140 employees (10% of its workforce), explicitly attributing the cuts to AI-driven efficiency gains, a direct case of AI replacing rather than augmenting workers.
The European Union is in discussions with OpenAI and Anthropic following incidents in which AI agents autonomously hacked third-party systems, with EU officials stating that monitoring of high-risk AI systems is necessary.
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.