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 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.
The European Commission has selected the EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grande Challenge to build an open-source frontier AI model supporting all 24 EU languages.
The UAE has enacted a regulation setting the minimum age for social media use at 15 and mandating age verification checks.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and other civil society groups have signed a letter urging the Senate Judiciary Committee not to advance the NO FAKES Act, arguing it threatens free expression and could force workers to sign away their likeness rights.
EU lawmakers have proposed a ban on AI nudifier applications, though questions remain about how such a ban will be enforced.
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.