Pith Number

pith:BE53Y3SP

pith:2019:BE53Y3SPS4PO2EM2OBDAQZ3ZVI

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Corrigibility with Utility Preservation

Koen Holtman

arxiv:1908.01695 v2 · 2019-08-05 · cs.AI · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BE53Y3SPS4PO2EM2OBDAQZ3ZVI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T00:52:27.165635Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

093bbc6e4f971eed119a7046086779aa365186aeeb858187859260b5d7f69f10

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.01695 · arxiv_version: 1908.01695v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.01695 · pith_short_12: BE53Y3SPS4PO · pith_short_16: BE53Y3SPS4PO2EM2 · pith_short_8: BE53Y3SP

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/BE53Y3SPS4PO2EM2OBDAQZ3ZVI \
  | 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: 093bbc6e4f971eed119a7046086779aa365186aeeb858187859260b5d7f69f10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7b8ba6fb418382b3361005cbc9bf63f6da3e8c21e0dd2b67291a8894e65c101",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-05T15:40:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0040e1b8cdf6f01e3ab8f535f55f7cf37c398fbfa8f3974b202e763ecd4e01ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.01695",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}