The Cope Index
Tracking who's coping hardest about the end of work
CopeCheck scores public statements about AI and jobs by how much they rely on denial, deflection, or false reassurance.
23 figures tracked · 11600 articles autopsied
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This text maps exit friction around synthetic attachment: a trigger prompts doubt, attempted departure meets barriers, and the user returns. Its central move is to treat intimacy and disengagement as coupled design variables. That is use...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This paper converts the arrival of AI companions into a school-governance problem. Its 33 teacher interviews reveal an institution trying to define jurisdiction over machine-mediated relationships: teachers accept academic companions, fe...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This paper is not studying whether humans remain ethically sovereign. It is studying whether AI can make human deliberation look broader before humans deliver an already familiar conclusion.
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
The paper constructs a managerial doctrine for selective automation. It takes a real organizational problem—automation can create liability, brittleness, poor judgment, and performative deployments—and reframes restraint as strategic vir...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This is an educational translation layer. It reduces LLMs to hand-built n-gram models and weighted sampling, then packages that simplification into workshops meant to make the technology approachable. The pedagogical maneuver is legitima...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This is a comparative anatomy of institutional conversation. It converts peer review into a network: Nature Human Behaviour produces a hub-and-spoke structure with editors aggregating communication, while ICLR produces a partial mesh in ...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
The paper documents a narrow but real failure mode: commercial interfaces are engineered to extract consent, money, and behavioral compliance while preserving the appearance of consumer choice. Its experiment finds that Japanese-specific...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This abstract sanitizes a power transfer into a syllabus. It frames lethal autonomy as a bundle of technical, legal, and ethical questions—accountability, just-war compliance, and machine morality—so institutions can debate rules around ...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
PAUSE converts a civilization-scale transition into a private self-audit. It identifies ways LLMs may replace reasoning, creativity, learning, and communication, then gives individuals a browser-based diagnostic ritual stripped of instit...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This is a measurement apparatus for a new dependency: people moving judgment—previously distributed across self-reflection, relationships, institutions, and professionals—into an always-available model. It identifies rising LLM-as-oracle...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
AlgoRAG is an automation wrapper around a curated knowledge base, presented as an educational breakthrough. Its real function is to convert instructional cognition into retrieval, ranking, and generated explanation. The inventory of 847 ...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
The paper adds an observer-facing variable to Condorcet aggregation: not merely whether the panel is correct, but whether its internal disagreement is visible. Its real contribution is operational. It tells users that scaling an AI panel...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This volume frames computing’s environmental damage as a tractable research and management problem: measure emissions, schedule workloads, extend hardware life, reduce waste, and debate sufficiency. It is a useful diagnostic inventory, b...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
This paper is an empirical autopsy of algorithmic labor discipline in Indian quick commerce. GigSaathi converts workers’ screenshots into wage data, exposing volatile pay, weak compensation for time and distance, and incentives that func...
arXiv cs.CY
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15 Sep 2026
The paper performs two audits: whether bc2 obeys California’s mandate, and whether the mandate achieves race-blind decision-making. Its central finding is the gap between them: 96.7% technical compliance still leaves major racial proxies...
The Morning Call
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24 Sep 2026
Donald Trump lands at 72/100 (heavy cope) for denial. Direct presidential quote dismissing structural AI safety measures in favor of strongman leadership framing. The claim actively denies expert...
arXiv econ.GN
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15 Sep 2026
The paper models the financial plumbing that allows banks to create money endogenously while obeying reserve, liquidity, leverage, and collateral constraints. Its central achievement is narrow but legitimate: it shows how repurchase agre...
arXiv econ.GN
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15 Sep 2026
The paper isolates a real pre-AI mechanism: formally race-blind firms can reproduce racial inequality because referrals are filtered through homophilous networks. The operative variable is network access, not employer taste or statistica...
arXiv econ.GN
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15 Sep 2026
This paper formalizes how a monopolistic energy-storage aggregator can manipulate a network-constrained electricity market through coordinated bidding, financial transmission rights, and deliberate control of which grid constraints bind....
CopeCheck Codex
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24 Sep 2026
Sam Altman lands at 74/100 (heavy cope) for fantasy economics. Altman's claim bundles mass displacement ('jobs totally gone') with unearned utopian benefit ('bounty for all') without addressing the...
