Pith Number

pith:5PKTCAB5

pith:2025:5PKTCAB5NCCXYYY6DZLCOQDKZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Position Paper: Bounded Alignment: What (Not) To Expect From AGI Agents

Ali A. Minai

arxiv:2505.11866 v1 · 2025-05-17 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PKTCAB5NCCXYYY6DZLCOQDKZQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:04:53.541741Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebd531003d68857c631e1e5627406acc0e751499309b2eb420aa60991a178240

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.11866 · arxiv_version: 2505.11866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.11866 · pith_short_12: 5PKTCAB5NCCX · pith_short_16: 5PKTCAB5NCCXYYY6 · pith_short_8: 5PKTCAB5

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/5PKTCAB5NCCXYYY6DZLCOQDKZQ \
  | 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: ebd531003d68857c631e1e5627406acc0e751499309b2eb420aa60991a178240

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a832a4bf514d3417288e86a66f1b037dc33c567db664e16859cccbd4a031d374",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-17T06:17:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e600e0a168a0b4c3cd155b2949d206f127f1eed11679345602acdf1293e4b68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.11866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}