WEEK OF 2026-10-12
denial
Yann LeCun — 92/100 Cope Score
he isn't worried "at all" about AI taking out humanity and has "zero concerns" about rogue AI incidents.
Cope of the Week Archive
Every Monday we crown the week's most copium-laden article. Here's the hall of shame.
WEEK OF 2026-10-05
jobs_will_be_created, denial, false_reassurance, techno_optimism
Jeff Bezos — 88/100 Cope Score
“AI will increase demand for workers and create labor shortages.”
WEEK OF 2026-09-28
jobs_will_be_created, augmentation_fantasy, denial, false_reassurance, techno_optimism
Jeff Bezos — 86/100 Cope Score
“I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.”
WEEK OF 2026-09-21
jobs_will_be_created, false_reassurance, partial_acknowledgment, techno_optimism, arsonist_firefighter
Sam Altman — 82/100 Cope Score
“the most exciting time in history to start a career” ... “everything is just better.”
WEEK OF 2026-09-14
regulatory_hopium, false_reassurance, techno_optimism, arsonist_firefighter
Elon Musk — 85/100 Cope Score
“Artificial intelligence will usher in a new era of prosperity in which work will be ‘kind of like a hobby’ because the government will...
WEEK OF 2026-09-07
denial, techno_optimism, deflection
Marc Andreessen — 90/100 Cope Score
We are being lied to. We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality... Truth.
WEEK OF 2026-08-31
false_reassurance,deflection,techno_optimism,denial
Elon Musk — 88/100 Cope Score
“Money will no longer matter in 2036.”
WEEK OF 2026-08-24
jobs_will_be_created, false_reassurance, techno_optimism
Mark Zuckerberg — 82/100 Cope Score
“abundance of jobs” and “a wave of new careers like world builders and personal biologists”
WEEK OF 2026-08-17
jobs_will_be_created, false_reassurance, techno_optimism, denial
Mark Zuckerberg — 82/100 Cope Score
“it will rather create more jobs than unleash doom”
WEEK OF 2026-08-10
denial, false_reassurance, augmentation_fantasy
Jensen Huang — 82/100 Cope Score
AI isn't going to eliminate jobs. He said that tasks are more at risk.
WEEK OF 2026-08-03
denial,elite_self_exoneration,arsonist_firefighter
Jensen Huang — 82/100 Cope Score
"The narrative that AI is destroying jobs is completely backwards."
WEEK OF 2026-07-27
jobs_will_be_created, techno_optimism, elite_self_exoneration, partial_acknowledgment, arsonist_firefighter
Sam Altman — 78/100 Cope Score
"pretty sure" AI has been net job-creating so far. "This is not what I expected,"
WEEK OF 2026-07-20
denial, jobs_will_be_created, arsonist_firefighter, techno_optimism
Mark Zuckerberg — 78/100 Cope Score
"People think it's inevitable. 'I actually don't think that's true'" - claiming AI displacement isn't inevitable and that focusing on human empowerment could "in...
WEEK OF 2026-07-13
denial, jobs_will_be_created, theoretical_cope, arsonist_firefighter, false_reassurance
Mark Zuckerberg — 82/100 Cope Score
"in theory there should be more jobs in the future, not less"
WEEK OF 2026-07-06
denial, techno_optimism, elite_self_exoneration, arsonist_firefighter
Jensen Huang — 82/100 Cope Score
"People talk about AI reducing jobs — complete nonsense"
WEEK OF 2026-06-29
denial,arsonist_firefighter,techno_optimism,elite_self_exoneration
Marc Andreessen — 88/100 Cope Score
"No sick days, No HR complaints... The bots never get frustrated with you"
WEEK OF 2026-06-22
denial, arsonist_firefighter, jobs_will_be_created, augmentation_fantasy
Jensen Huang — 90/100 Cope Score
"complete nonsense" — Huang's dismissal of documented AI-driven job losses
WEEK OF 2026-06-15
deflection, elite_self_exoneration, timeline_minimisation
Satya Nadella — 78/100 Cope Score
"You need to give them identities, you need to give them sandboxes, then you need to set policies to..."
WEEK OF 2026-06-08
denial, false_reassurance, arsonist_firefighter, techno_optimism
Sam Altman — 97/100 Cope Score
"AI is unlikely to trigger the large-scale 'jobs apocalypse' many feared"
WEEK OF 2026-06-01
denial, deflection, elite_self_exoneration, arsonist_firefighter
Jensen Huang — 94/100 Cope Score
"I think the narrative that connects AI to job loss for many of the CEOs that are doing it is just too lazy."
WEEK OF 2026-05-25
denial, jobs_will_be_created, techno_optimism, false_reassurance, elite_self_exoneration
Marc Andreessen — 92/100 Cope Score
"'AI job loss' narratives are all fake," and the industry would facilitate a "massive jobs boom" because it allows individual workers to be "endlessly...
WEEK OF 2026-05-18
terminal_copium, techno_optimism, arsonist_firefighter, false_reassurance, elite_self_exoneration**
Elon Musk — 92/100 Cope Score
"Don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years... It won't matter... [AI will bring about a world of] zero...
WEEK OF 2026-05-11
arsonist_firefighter, timeline_minimisation, deflection, elite_self_exoneration
Jensen Huang — 74/100 Cope Score
"It is unlikely most people will lose a job to AI. It is most likely that most people will lose their job to somebody who uses AI. And so we have to make sure that everybody uses AI."