Pith Number

pith:7NZYIT3A

pith:2017:7NZYIT3A7NU4H7KWEAB4CLIK5V

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Towards Moral Autonomous Systems

Alan F. T. Winfield, Andreas Matthias, Janina Sombetzki, Louise Dennis, Marija Slavkovik, Michael Fisher, Robert Lieck, Roman Yampolskiy, Vicky Charisi

arxiv:1703.04741 v3 · 2017-03-14 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7NZYIT3A7NU4H7KWEAB4CLIK5V}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:41.479542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb73844f60fb69c3fd562003c12d0aed443f9f07b6d67092248823e195e1029f

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.04741 · arxiv_version: 1703.04741v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.04741 · pith_short_12: 7NZYIT3A7NU4 · pith_short_16: 7NZYIT3A7NU4H7KW · pith_short_8: 7NZYIT3A

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/7NZYIT3A7NU4H7KWEAB4CLIK5V \
  | 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: fb73844f60fb69c3fd562003c12d0aed443f9f07b6d67092248823e195e1029f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ed5694eaf3de7ce080769673edc469320785b371616db9d748953e95e76cd4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-14T21:46:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a02758616299bdf92b11a2984ae1991553bc841016822cf0bbd85da47a089e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.04741",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}