Pith Number

pith:ELFKPE4T

pith:2026:ELFKPE4T7XKL2FF6S4KI5T6RHC

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When Should We Protect AI? A Precautionary Framework for Consciousness Uncertainty

Anna Mikeda

arxiv:2606.05528 v1 · 2026-06-04 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ELFKPE4T7XKL2FF6S4KI5T6RHC}

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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	2026-06-05T01:14:53.848257Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22caa79393fdd4bd14be97148ecfd138b56cbca7e9814db291d2967b7a345079

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05528 · arxiv_version: 2606.05528v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05528 · pith_short_12: ELFKPE4T7XKL · pith_short_16: ELFKPE4T7XKL2FF6 · pith_short_8: ELFKPE4T

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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/ELFKPE4T7XKL2FF6S4KI5T6RHC \
  | 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: 22caa79393fdd4bd14be97148ecfd138b56cbca7e9814db291d2967b7a345079

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecbdfd032fe488425a768fa4f63f82e547cf3eb8642c22d8f18ca9ff42551ad9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T00:18:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4786174cfcaaf0080ed7a26d3f762a8faa9a9d6e7527955beb766630ade3dbdb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}