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pith:BXKO2CDF

pith:2025:BXKO2CDFTEEKMUWHYWFVDD4NVB

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Making AI Inevitable: Historical Perspective and the Problems of Predicting Long-Term Technological Change

John Severini, Mark Fisher

arxiv:2508.16692 v1 · 2025-08-21 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.ET · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:02:50.981176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dd4ed08659908a652c7c58b518f8da879cc0c0e928866f7e3a4cc6c271f69da

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.16692 · arxiv_version: 2508.16692v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16692 · pith_short_12: BXKO2CDFTEEK · pith_short_16: BXKO2CDFTEEKMUWH · pith_short_8: BXKO2CDF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BXKO2CDFTEEKMUWHYWFVDD4NVB \
  | 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: 0dd4ed08659908a652c7c58b518f8da879cc0c0e928866f7e3a4cc6c271f69da

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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      "cs.ET",
      "econ.GN",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-21T21:18:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d496315db0ef6ac0c44ca6cce15cc7eaf02dd3ec37845235072ffbeb76ffe757"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2508.16692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}