Pith Number

pith:5XBQUDRE

pith:2026:5XBQUDREJQ2ZFXPTS6OKTYEYWN

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The AI Epistemic Deference Index: A Continuous Measure of Sycophancy

Alejandro Botas, Luke Hewitt, Paul de Font-Reaulx

arxiv:2606.07897 v1 · 2026-06-05 · cs.AI · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XBQUDREJQ2ZFXPTS6OKTYEYWN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-09T01:04:54.799644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edc30a0e244c3592ddf3979ca9e098b379a0a7470a393c715a90940d41a81192

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07897 · arxiv_version: 2606.07897v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07897 · pith_short_12: 5XBQUDREJQ2Z · pith_short_16: 5XBQUDREJQ2ZFXPT · pith_short_8: 5XBQUDRE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5XBQUDREJQ2ZFXPTS6OKTYEYWN \
  | 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: edc30a0e244c3592ddf3979ca9e098b379a0a7470a393c715a90940d41a81192

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ef6e3131efa59ca92c5cbbf11e329491dc4e58177b290a71cd4da7ac7331db0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-05T23:16:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7924271261836f6f0b95a1a17819ff106a8b00e3d763e1d8a488f87ef1281663"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07897",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}