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 · 11579 articles autopsied
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
This is a participatory governance palliative — a preprint offering procedural comfort for the belief that the energy transition is a coordination and deliberation problem with a technically recoverable solution. The campfire metaphor si...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
TEXT START: "Red-light violations and harsh braking at signalized intersections are major contributors to traffic accidents."
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
This paper performs a precise function: it manufactures scientific legitimacy for the automated sanitization of public discourse, framing AI comment moderation as a measurable performance lever for advertising ROI. It is, structurally, a...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
URL SCAN: arXiv cs.CY – AI literacy over tool design
Lee Jong-Wha lands at 38/100 (moderate) for deflection. The attributed claim minimizes AI labour market disruption by asserting the transition 'unlikely to be as dramatic as some tech...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
The paper reframes AI’s data exhaustion problem as a recombination problem: extract more scientific and commercial value from datasets that already exist. Its evidence suggests repurposed data can produce highly disruptive research, part...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
The paper strips the human mask off “silicon sampling.” The model is not simulating individual citizens. It is emitting country-shaped priors. Naming the country creates most of the recoverable signal; richer personal backstories add not...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
The study isolates procedural features—appeals, opt-outs, bias audits, explanations, and human involvement—from error rates, then measures which systems job seekers prefer. Its finding is narrow but real: applicants value procedural cont...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
This is an audit of bureaucratic attention. It counts how often and how substantively 684 federal documents address 14 sectors and 24 AI risks, then compares that coverage with vulnerability judgments from 272 experts.
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
This paper frames AI as an HR control layer: sentiment analysis, pulse surveys, chatbots, dashboards, and predictive analytics convert worker emotion and behavior into continuously harvested management data. “Silent quitting” is treated ...
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
This is not merely a cultural-evaluation paper. It is an engineering brief for making LLMs socially deployable across Arabic-speaking contexts.
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
URL SCAN: Measuring AI harms with multidimensional Lorenz Zonoids
arXiv cs.CY
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16 Sep 2026
TEXT START: "In the United States, management of cybercrime-related consumer complaints increasingly falls on state and city governments given de-staffing of federal agencies."
arXiv econ.GN
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16 Sep 2026
This is a micro-optimization exercise masquerading as systemic policy analysis. The authors construct a rigorous demand model for the South Korean passenger vehicle market, parameterize it with mileage heterogeneity, and produce a clean ...
Bart van Krimpen lands at 45/100 (moderate) for deflection. Van Krimpen redirects youth hiring decline from AI displacement to economic cycles, characterizing AI displacement concerns as 'far too...
Sen. Mark Kelly lands at 28/100 (moderate) for fantasy economics. Senator Kelly acknowledges AI displacement risk (avoiding denial) but frames a tax-funded trust fund as capable of 'shielding'...
arXiv econ.GN
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16 Sep 2026
This paper builds a trade-based map of AI-enabling industrial capacity. Using 103 goods and export data from 2007–2023, it measures current specialization, nearby diversification opportunities, and the complexity of those opportunities. ...
arXiv econ.GN
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16 Sep 2026
This is a benchmark survey measuring AI against traditional statistics and scientific computing across 2,507 comparisons. Its legitimate finding is that AI is neither universally superior nor uniformly efficient. Its larger rhetorical mo...
GoogleAlerts/artificial intelligence job losses
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16 Sep 2026
This is a live-blog collage that converts structural stress into digestible political episodes. The headline promises migration policy; the source label points to AI job losses; the body jumps through copyright, property losses, grants, ...
GoogleAlerts/artificial intelligence job losses
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15 Sep 2026
The headline packages political convergence as policy significance. “Stronger AI oversight” is an empty container until it specifies enforcement, targets, jurisdiction, and limits. The supplied material contains no article body—only the ...
