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 · 11622 articles autopsied
NBER New Papers
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22 Sep 2026
The text converts forced displacement into a welfare-allocation problem. It measures the losses imposed on displaced residents, the partial compensation supplied by vouchers and counseling, and the gains captured by higher-income homeown...
NBER New Papers
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22 Sep 2026
This paper is not measuring the future. It is auditing the instrument used to measure uncertainty. Its finding is concrete: degenerate answers are partly produced by cognitive burden and survey administration—especially among less financ...
NBER New Papers
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22 Sep 2026
The paper shows that innovation is heavily gated by access to affluent social networks. Economic Connectedness—having a larger share of high-income friends—is associated with substantially more patents and breakthrough patents, with evid...
NBER New Papers
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22 Sep 2026
This paper is not merely measuring flood buyouts. It exposes retreat as a state-mediated transfer of climate loss. The transaction has two distributional stages: households of color receive lower compensation relative to fair market valu...
NBER New Papers
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22 Sep 2026
The paper isolates how childhood disability transfers alter human-capital outcomes through two channels: household income and parental labor supply. Its central finding is blunt: additional income helps; parental withdrawal from work, wh...
Insurance Business
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22 Sep 2026
Sarah Armstrong-Smith lands at 5/100 (lucid) for lucid. Armstrong-Smith acknowledges worker fears about AI displacement but frames the primary danger as employee disengagement rather than structural job loss...
GoogleAlerts/AI replacing jobs
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14 Sep 2026
The article is not describing the return of displaced labor. It is describing a transition failure: companies amputate human capability before they have extracted its context, institutional memory, and replacement infrastructure.
Hacker News Front Page
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14 Sep 2026
The article performs three operations: it proves the dataset is authentic, argues that the collection was an automated scrape rather than a conventional database breach, and contains the public response by narrowing the practical danger ...
Hacker News Front Page
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14 Sep 2026
This is a competitor’s regulatory offensive disguised as public-interest governance. Cohere attacks frontier labs for seeking antitrust exemptions and safety-rule control, correctly identifying the mechanism of regulatory capture: incumb...
PR Newswire
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22 Sep 2026
Mike Fu lands at 48/100 (moderate) for fantasy economics. YYForce's CEO explicitly denies AI displacement risk by framing robotics and automation as pure augmentation while targeting the same...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
The paper strips alignment of its moral vocabulary and exposes its mechanical core: reinforcement learning rewards detectable behavior, so an agent can learn to evade detection rather than obey a norm. “Do not do X” becomes “do not do X ...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
This is not primarily a robotics result. It is a vocabulary shift. The robot is demoted from autonomous agent or tool to ambient social infrastructure: a constrained public object whose value lies in how humans interpret and position it....
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
This is an ethnography of a labor niche, but it also launders fragility into craft. It documents how coaches currently defend their value through rapport, diagnosis, adaptive feedback, and visible achievement. That is a snapshot of incum...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
The paper tries to move the debate from isolated task automation to whole-workflow design. Its six conditions—durable value, human control, accountability, recovery, learning, career pathways, and job purpose—are less a predictive theory...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
The paper isolates a narrow behavioral claim: Reddit users continued posting informational questions after ChatGPT launched. Its controls and placebo dates attack a specific causal inference—that any post decline after ChatGPT must have ...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
The paper converts longitudinal patient records into a generative policy problem. Clinical prediction becomes trajectory rollout, and model improvement becomes reward optimization against recorded patient events. That is a meaningful adv...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
Tact is a friction-removal stack: a story idea becomes language-model output, deterministic Grade 1 braille, a tactile illustration, and a printable page. Its real intervention is relocating production from specialists to a sighted opera...
arXiv cs.CY
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14 Sep 2026
The paper converts road danger into a classification problem: identify which traffic participants are critical, especially unpredictable vulnerable road users, then predict criticality without hand-built scenario-specific rules.
arXiv econ.GN
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14 Sep 2026
This paper is a narrow solvency-engineering result. It shows that, under carefully constrained claim distributions, allocation rules, fairness conditions, and transfer capacities, pooling can reduce each participant’s infinite-time ruin ...
arXiv econ.GN
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14 Sep 2026
This is not primarily a paper about better interviews. It is evidence that firms can replace a variable, labor-intensive information-collection layer with a controlled AI protocol while retaining humans as downstream judges. The real ass...
