Pith Number

pith:6MM6XRNQ

pith:2026:6MM6XRNQ6TMXBLB2YTCEADGRQ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward a Theory of Value in AI Alignment

Abeba Birhane, Andrew Smart, Jackie Kay, Jimmy Tobin, Kris Shrishak, Shazeda Ahmed

arxiv:2608.10327 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6MM6XRNQ6TMXBLB2YTCEADGRQ7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-08-12T00:23:53.183078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f319ebc5b0f4d970ac3ac4c4400cd187d3bb2350f7d70cc73b1f43e8e74e94cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10327 · arxiv_version: 2608.10327v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10327 · pith_short_12: 6MM6XRNQ6TMX · pith_short_16: 6MM6XRNQ6TMXBLB2 · pith_short_8: 6MM6XRNQ

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/6MM6XRNQ6TMXBLB2YTCEADGRQ7 \
  | 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: f319ebc5b0f4d970ac3ac4c4400cd187d3bb2350f7d70cc73b1f43e8e74e94cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf174e2bf910bbe5a061c2703ed1fd112cf5447a19b9ee02f52a3cb3108a0540",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T23:57:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88cbb4beadf83b67da028abf82dab22d128827ff581c1232e5cad81cdd3fb813"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10327",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}