Pith Number

pith:3YED4GDH

pith:2025:3YED4GDHGODAR3ALP7MZSD33N4

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Between Fear and Desire, the Monster Artificial Intelligence (AI): Analysis through the Lenses of Monster Theory

Ahmed Tlili

arxiv:2508.08318 v1 · 2025-08-09 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YED4GDHGODAR3ALP7MZSD33N4}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:52:26.015661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de083e1867338608ec0b7fd9990f7b6f0a9d151b5913cbd085f72c5aded963a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.08318 · arxiv_version: 2508.08318v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.08318 · pith_short_12: 3YED4GDHGODA · pith_short_16: 3YED4GDHGODAR3AL · pith_short_8: 3YED4GDH

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3YED4GDHGODAR3ALP7MZSD33N4 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: de083e1867338608ec0b7fd9990f7b6f0a9d151b5913cbd085f72c5aded963a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bb487e98ef296ee94aa38e3fd92b8c0a197241a0069ac4aa2a9c35261a923ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-09T08:35:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b164e0fdd79c3185771248795a49c9d4608a467430dfe989ebf9ed2bba903128"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.08318",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}