WEEK OF 2026-08-31
false_reassurance,deflection,techno_optimism,denial
Elon Musk — 88/100 Cope Score
“Money will no longer matter in 2036.”
Cope of the Week Archive
Every Monday we crown the week's most copium-laden article. Here's the hall of shame.
WEEK OF 2026-08-24
jobs_will_be_created, false_reassurance, techno_optimism
Mark Zuckerberg — 82/100 Cope Score
“abundance of jobs” and “a wave of new careers like world builders and personal biologists”
WEEK OF 2026-08-17
jobs_will_be_created, false_reassurance, techno_optimism, denial
Mark Zuckerberg — 82/100 Cope Score
“it will rather create more jobs than unleash doom”
WEEK OF 2026-08-10
denial, false_reassurance, augmentation_fantasy
Jensen Huang — 82/100 Cope Score
AI isn't going to eliminate jobs. He said that tasks are more at risk.
WEEK OF 2026-08-03
denial,elite_self_exoneration,arsonist_firefighter
Jensen Huang — 82/100 Cope Score
"The narrative that AI is destroying jobs is completely backwards."
WEEK OF 2026-07-27
jobs_will_be_created, techno_optimism, elite_self_exoneration, partial_acknowledgment, arsonist_firefighter
Sam Altman — 78/100 Cope Score
"pretty sure" AI has been net job-creating so far. "This is not what I expected,"
WEEK OF 2026-07-20
denial, jobs_will_be_created, arsonist_firefighter, techno_optimism
Mark Zuckerberg — 78/100 Cope Score
"People think it's inevitable. 'I actually don't think that's true'" - claiming AI displacement isn't inevitable and that focusing on human empowerment could "in...
WEEK OF 2026-07-13
denial, jobs_will_be_created, theoretical_cope, arsonist_firefighter, false_reassurance
Mark Zuckerberg — 82/100 Cope Score
"in theory there should be more jobs in the future, not less"
WEEK OF 2026-07-06
denial, techno_optimism, elite_self_exoneration, arsonist_firefighter
Jensen Huang — 82/100 Cope Score
"People talk about AI reducing jobs — complete nonsense"
WEEK OF 2026-06-29
denial,arsonist_firefighter,techno_optimism,elite_self_exoneration
Marc Andreessen — 88/100 Cope Score
"No sick days, No HR complaints... The bots never get frustrated with you"
WEEK OF 2026-06-22
denial, arsonist_firefighter, jobs_will_be_created, augmentation_fantasy
Jensen Huang — 90/100 Cope Score
"complete nonsense" — Huang's dismissal of documented AI-driven job losses
WEEK OF 2026-06-15
deflection, elite_self_exoneration, timeline_minimisation
Satya Nadella — 78/100 Cope Score
"You need to give them identities, you need to give them sandboxes, then you need to set policies to..."
WEEK OF 2026-06-08
denial, false_reassurance, arsonist_firefighter, techno_optimism
Sam Altman — 97/100 Cope Score
"AI is unlikely to trigger the large-scale 'jobs apocalypse' many feared"
WEEK OF 2026-06-01
denial, deflection, elite_self_exoneration, arsonist_firefighter
Jensen Huang — 94/100 Cope Score
"I think the narrative that connects AI to job loss for many of the CEOs that are doing it is just too lazy."
WEEK OF 2026-05-25
denial, jobs_will_be_created, techno_optimism, false_reassurance, elite_self_exoneration
Marc Andreessen — 92/100 Cope Score
"'AI job loss' narratives are all fake," and the industry would facilitate a "massive jobs boom" because it allows individual workers to be "endlessly...
WEEK OF 2026-05-18
terminal_copium, techno_optimism, arsonist_firefighter, false_reassurance, elite_self_exoneration**
Elon Musk — 92/100 Cope Score
"Don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years... It won't matter... [AI will bring about a world of] zero...
WEEK OF 2026-05-11
arsonist_firefighter, timeline_minimisation, deflection, elite_self_exoneration
Jensen Huang — 74/100 Cope Score
"It is unlikely most people will lose a job to AI. It is most likely that most people will lose their job to somebody who uses AI. And so we have to make sure that everybody uses AI."