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.
MIT Technology Review reports new research showing LLMs can develop their own biases in hiring beyond training data inheritance, raising concerns about AI resume-screening fairness.
France's parliamentary committee approved a bill banning social media access for users under 15, advancing minor protection legislation toward a full parliamentary vote in a major EU member state.
A US judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement between Anthropic and rights holders, holding a frontier AI lab financially accountable for training data copyright infringement.
A Tennessee state trial began against Meta over allegations that Instagram was deliberately designed to be addictive, with the state pursuing accountability for platform dark-pattern design that harms users.
The director of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation resigned just three months into the role, signaling instability in the main US AI safety standards institution.
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.