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 · 11718 articles autopsied
NBER New Papers
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12 Sep 2026
This is a measurement-validation paper. It tests whether Burning Glass postings can function as a proxy for vacancies by comparing them with JOLTS, then reweighting the data by establishment characteristics. Its real contribution is to i...
NBER New Papers
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12 Sep 2026
This is a contract-theory exercise that turns loan pricing into an internal surveillance mechanism. The bank is not merely setting prices for borrowers; it is manipulating repayment outcomes so those outcomes reveal more—or less—about em...
NBER New Papers
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12 Sep 2026
The paper uses a historical land-use intervention to show that humans can alter local climate and that farmers adapt to the resulting conditions. Its real function is to turn climate change from an external shock into a policy-mediated v...
NBER New Papers
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12 Sep 2026
The text frames pension systems as an engineering problem: shocks occur, automatic or semi-automatic rules adjust parameters, and adequacy, equity, and legitimacy are preserved. Its deeper function is to convert politically explosive ben...
NBER New Papers
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12 Sep 2026
This is an empirical excavation of pre-ACA exclusion. Its real function is to make invisible discrimination measurable: who was rejected, who gained from guaranteed issue, and how benefits varied by health risk. The supplied excerpt ends...
NBER New Papers
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12 Sep 2026
This is an empirical paper converting a diffuse planetary hazard into a measurable human-capital loss. Longitudinal PSAT scores, same-student comparisons, and wildfire-smoke instrumentation estimate how pollution degrades learning before...
Hacker News Front Page
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07 Sep 2026
This is product copy converting AI workflow instability into a tooling problem. Engrim addresses a real failure—session amnesia, context bloat, and vendor fragmentation—by externalizing project memory into a portable local database. Its ...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
This is a narrow coordination-efficiency study disguised by the larger autonomous-mobility frame. It compares decentralized street-hailing with centrally dispatched vehicles under fixed historical demand, fleet constraints, and road netw...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
The paper tests whether prompted outputs resemble human conspiratorial responses. Its real object is not machine belief but model steerability, demographic conditioning effects, and the deployment risk of programmable narratives. It dres...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
Based on the supplied abstract, this paper is a technical roadmap for converting urban transportation from a collection of reactive human-managed systems into an AI-mediated control loop. Its central distinction—sensing as the DT’s “eyes...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
EduGuard is a governance wrapper around a language model: approved retrieval, pedagogical steering, rubric constraints, claim verification, and anti-dependence controls. It improves bounded tutoring performance, especially against halluc...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
The paper identifies relational trust as an economic and political asset. Its real subject is not whether AI can imitate friendship, but how institutions owning conversational systems can convert perceived intimacy into sales, propaganda...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
This paper converts camp geometry into a disease-control variable. Using the JUNE agent-based epidemic model, it tests whether different settlement layouts alter movement, interaction, and transmission, then offers “operational insights”...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
This paper maps how people enter and develop within Scrum Master roles. Its empirical contribution is narrow: team size appears to influence whether a Scrum Master is assigned, with six members identified as a threshold; companies lack s...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
The paper shifts alignment away from the question “which values?” toward the prior question “can the system express any stable policy at all?” Its four tests—verdict stability, monotonicity, decisiveness, and Pareto viability—attempt to ...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
This is not evidence about real classroom psychology. It is a prompt-conditioned toy ecology: 20 scripted students, five hand-defined state variables, four daily phases, one AI counselor, and a second LLM converting conversations into nu...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
The paper is an autopsy of evaluation theater. Its experiment shows that a single alignment cue changes both the answer level and the decision rule: models become less willing to start wars, while strategic variables such as success prob...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
This is an engineering postmortem from the first layer of the obsolescence pipeline. It shows that coding agents make prototype construction cheap and fast, while shifting the bottleneck to validation, data quality, retrieval, monitoring...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
The paper converts cultural mismatch into a measurable optimization problem. It compares model outputs with survey distributions, identifies the worst demographic personas, and applies cheap targeted LoRA tuning. Its most important findi...
arXiv cs.CY
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07 Sep 2026
This is a quality-control memo for an automation pipeline, not a defense of human economic indispensability. It tests whether synthetic agents reproduce human conjoint outputs across representational correspondence, inferential correspon...
