Pith Number

pith:A3ZXV2J5

pith:2026:A3ZXV2J5O7ZKC5GCEWHX7MVB3V

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Why do we need social singularity? A mechanism-based critique of gradual scenarios in AI existential-risk discourse

Petr O. Jedlicka

arxiv:2608.03904 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3ZXV2J5O7ZKC5GCEWHX7MVB3V}

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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	2026-08-05T01:37:21.333832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06f37ae93d77f2a174c2258f7fb2a1dd718c906cdf860e8b5feddf5629d97222

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03904 · arxiv_version: 2608.03904v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03904 · pith_short_12: A3ZXV2J5O7ZK · pith_short_16: A3ZXV2J5O7ZKC5GC · pith_short_8: A3ZXV2J5

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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/A3ZXV2J5O7ZKC5GCEWHX7MVB3V \
  | 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: 06f37ae93d77f2a174c2258f7fb2a1dd718c906cdf860e8b5feddf5629d97222

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2db6a6fc85c900116c88ec07f97a038027ab6a9d27bc3b0001908cae2047ddd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T16:30:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd6f4ca423deae22e3793d24b3cc6f4284118c90049b9d4eef72c12933193be9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03904",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}