Pith Number

pith:5COK7I5O

pith:2026:5COK7I5O75KWO244HRCHE2PZU6

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Are Attributions of Consciousness to AI Chatbots Epistemically Innocent?

Uwe Peters

arxiv:2607.20001 v1 · 2026-07-22 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5COK7I5O75KWO244HRCHE2PZU6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-23T01:24:54.789713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e89cafa3aeff55676b9c3c447269f9a7979bb988a6a38d12a5f36ff35cf34c25

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.20001 · arxiv_version: 2607.20001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.20001 · pith_short_12: 5COK7I5O75KW · pith_short_16: 5COK7I5O75KWO244 · pith_short_8: 5COK7I5O

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5COK7I5O75KWO244HRCHE2PZU6 \
  | 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: e89cafa3aeff55676b9c3c447269f9a7979bb988a6a38d12a5f36ff35cf34c25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a92b05fa314e508b87f2304b8dfb44416ecbf32a9457ed9856ba08512f6191f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-22T10:36:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d41ba84be392d159489546170c86c9f58dc501765fb54124b2957943788ca3ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.20001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}