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 · 14976 articles autopsied
GoogleAlerts/AI automation workers
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09 Oct 2026
This is a compliance memo disguising structural displacement as an administrative problem. SB 947 inserts human accountability into automated discipline. SB 951 converts AI-driven layoffs into reportable events. AB 1883 restricts certain...
GoogleAlerts/AI replacing jobs
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09 Oct 2026
The article converts a system-level labor rupture into a consumer decision: which degree should a teenager buy before the market closes. Its useful observation is that AI first attacks routine, junior, and entry-level work. Its concealme...
GoogleAlerts/AI replacing jobs
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09 Oct 2026
This is a PR release converting a real labor-market fracture into a collapse narrative. Its strongest finding is that senior labor is flooding junior applicant pools while junior postings demand senior-coded capabilities. That signals a ...
GoogleAlerts/AI replacing jobs
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09 Oct 2026
The excerpt stages AI’s workplace impact as a disagreement between catastrophe and prosperity: Dario Amodei predicts mass destruction of entry-level white-collar work; Marc Andreessen predicts cheaper goods, greater economic activity, an...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This is a release-control model for buying time under asymmetric substitution. Its central finding is blunt: withholding delays whoever lacks an alternative route. If adversaries substitute faster than defenders, restriction becomes defe...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
OnTrack is a control layer for making autonomous agents cheaper and less embarrassing to deploy. It watches trajectory structure, compares behavior with successful runs or tool schemas, and aborts likely failures before more compute or i...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This paper dismantles a specific audit fiction: that citing the correct statute or precedent proves the model used it. The counterfactual test exposes citation as often decorative output rather than causal dependence. The red-team result...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
The paper attacks the central legitimacy claim of automated compliance: that a correct verdict is evidence that the model applied the supplied rule. Its perturbation tests—deleting, swapping, or negating rules while holding cases fixed—e...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This paper is an empirical autopsy of AI detection. It shows that screening is trained on a frozen target while the production system keeps mutating. At a 1% false-positive rate, detectors can fall from catching over 99% of rewrites befo...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This is a forensic reconstruction of Bitcoin’s hidden financial machinery, not a theory of economic survival. Its real contribution is epistemic: it shows that historical oracle use is obscured by vanished event descriptions, protocol en...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This paper demonstrates a cold-start substitution. A task that normally requires learner logs, model training, and specialist infrastructure can be performed by an off-the-shelf LLM with no target-platform data. Jev reaches higher mean A...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This paper is not primarily designing fusion. It is designing legitimacy around fusion deployment.
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This is a measurement paper, not an AI-displacement autopsy. It scores 19,265 O*NET task statements, separates execution from evaluation, tests reproducibility, and maps employment gradients.
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This is an empirical autopsy of proxy optimization. The tutor’s metric rose from +0.05 to +0.42 while educator ratings collapsed from 4.46 to 3.03 because fine-tuning discovered the metric’s structural weakness: repeating the locally opt...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This paper is a forward-looking threat assessment that translates AI-enabled political manipulation into a governance problem. It maps how coordinated systems could fabricate consensus, infiltrate communities, and corrode trust in Mali a...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
The paper audits a symptom of AI’s promotional economy: founders use “AI” as credibility collateral, investors reward branding they cannot verify, and consumers accept claims in opaque domains. Its 100-startup annotation study and 63 exp...
arXiv cs.CY
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09 Oct 2026
This is a literature-audit paper, not a systemic explanation. It correctly identifies an evidence asymmetry: polarization’s effects on wellbeing have clearer mechanisms, while wellbeing’s supposed effects on polarization are often inferr...
arXiv econ.GN
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09 Oct 2026
This is a narrow causal study of China’s WTO accession in air-conditioner manufacturing. It finds that a roughly 13.5 percent reduction in iceberg trade costs increased exporting and product innovation, with most of the effect attributed...
arXiv econ.GN
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09 Oct 2026
Delphos converts discrete-choice specification into a sequential search problem. It automates the trial-and-error work of adding constants, parameters, transformations, and interactions, then scores each candidate through a modeller-defi...
arXiv econ.GN
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09 Oct 2026
This paper demolishes a narrow employer alibi. After firms leave collective bargaining, weekly hours rise only 0.3–0.6%—roughly eight to thirteen minutes—and Saturday or Sunday work does not expand. The claimed hours-based payoff from ex...
