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pith:FHKZWMW4

pith:2025:FHKZWMW4FUJIJCUGKMROTI6HWL

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Large language model-powered AI systems achieve self-replication with no human intervention

Changyi Li, Jiarun Dai, Min Yang, Minyuan Luo, Xudong Pan, Yihe Fan

arxiv:2503.17378 v2 · 2025-03-14 · cs.AI · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.ET · cs.MA

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:38:45.395449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29d59b32dc2d12848a865322e9a3c7b2c3d5d293db8544e1f231ec5351e1340e

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.17378 · arxiv_version: 2503.17378v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.17378 · pith_short_12: FHKZWMW4FUJI · pith_short_16: FHKZWMW4FUJIJCUG · pith_short_8: FHKZWMW4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FHKZWMW4FUJIJCUGKMROTI6HWL \
  | 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: 29d59b32dc2d12848a865322e9a3c7b2c3d5d293db8544e1f231ec5351e1340e

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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      "cs.CY",
      "cs.ET",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-14T14:44:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bc638bd2944b026ab0768f7ab5b0d146afce3a872f662cba2e1379cd6246965"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2503.17378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}