MODERATE COPE
Clark demonstrates sophisticated awareness of AI's potential to eliminate entry-level jobs at scale and explicitly discusses structural displacement challenges, wage insurance, and the need for taxation of AI companies. However, the interview is heavy with transition-framing cope: industrial revolution analogies that imply eventual adaptation, augmentation fantasy about entrepreneurs accessing "hundreds of colleagues cheaply," new-job-creation hand-waves, caring-work exemptions based on emotional preference, and productivity/wealth-creation optimism that assumes aggregate demand persists. The crucial aggregate demand question is never addressed — the interview treats AI displacement as a transition problem requiring retraining and taxation rather than a structural termination of labour demand.