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pith:DIHDZZOK

pith:2025:DIHDZZOKLFEDOSCZTWYGSYLQ5L

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Will artificial agents pursue power by default?

Christian Tarsney

arxiv:2506.06352 v1 · 2025-06-02 · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DIHDZZOKLFEDOSCZTWYGSYLQ5L}

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Instrumental Choices: Measuring the Propensity of LLM Agents to Pursue Instrumental Behaviors

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:17:48.670299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a0e3ce5ca59483748599db0696170eac3fd482d9e921bd51a94bf74271d5250

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.06352 · arxiv_version: 2506.06352v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.06352 · pith_short_12: DIHDZZOKLFED · pith_short_16: DIHDZZOKLFEDOSCZ · pith_short_8: DIHDZZOK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DIHDZZOKLFEDOSCZTWYGSYLQ5L \
  | 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: 1a0e3ce5ca59483748599db0696170eac3fd482d9e921bd51a94bf74271d5250

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38b3d27dbd384ab14a551dbcb99268dd3988c0ae61f3e77a20d9336681f95156",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-02T18:54:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6224619381c6f327307603dff7a8e6d20788bce74be81313002b9d0fc844c2ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.06352",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}