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 · 14981 articles autopsied
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...
arXiv econ.GN
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09 Oct 2026
This paper converts AI governance into a constrained scheduling problem: accumulate enough safety knowledge, reserve compute for safety work, then replay development under a risk ceiling and deadline. Its strongest result is conditional:...
arXiv econ.GN
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09 Oct 2026
This is a historical identification exercise. By comparing same-gender siblings assigned different Black or Mulatto classifications, the paper tries to separate perceived skin tone from family resources. Its finding is sharply gendered: ...
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
AliO identifies a real engineering defect: forecasts for the same future timestamp can vary depending on which lagged input window produced them. It adds a consistency objective in time and frequency domains, plus TAM to measure what MSE...
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
The paper is building a control layer for persistent-memory agents. It separates admission—what enters working context—from presentation—how that information is expressed—and tests whether deterministic filtering can reduce sycophancy an...
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
This paper converts adolescent self-injury into a machine-readable classification problem. In 106 depressed adolescents—67 with NSSI and 39 without—it identifies EEG microstate differences during social pain and reports 68.55% discrimina...
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
This paper builds measurement infrastructure for multimodal game-commentary automation. It standardizes tasks across games, classifies commentary by function, and converts human judgments into comparable evaluation signals. Its stated pu...
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
This paper is not solving reasoning in the human sense. It is optimizing a controlled production line for verified mathematical trajectories.
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
This paper is building an interface layer that makes autonomous agents easier for humans to direct, inspect, and correct. GenUI-Harness separates retrieval and execution from interface generation, then adds a sandbox and reward-auditing ...
arXiv cs.AI
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09 Oct 2026
This paper is building a legitimacy machine for a future claim: AI can enter research territory where humans have not already supplied the answer. The 14.0% mean judged solve rate for GPT-6-Astra is significant as a capability signal, bu...
