Pith Number

pith:GOX3GEDH

pith:2018:GOX3GEDHE6BTKNV47CGL46W3A5

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Enslaving the Algorithm: From a "Right to an Explanation" to a "Right to Better Decisions"?

Lilian Edwards, Michael Veale

arxiv:1803.07540 v2 · 2018-03-20 · cs.AI · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GOX3GEDHE6BTKNV47CGL46W3A5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:57.117188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33afb3106727833536bcf88cbe7adb076d74a5e285a587f3a08142dddad80d8f

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.07540 · arxiv_version: 1803.07540v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.07540 · pith_short_12: GOX3GEDHE6BT · pith_short_16: GOX3GEDHE6BTKNV4 · pith_short_8: GOX3GEDH

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/GOX3GEDHE6BTKNV47CGL46W3A5 \
  | 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: 33afb3106727833536bcf88cbe7adb076d74a5e285a587f3a08142dddad80d8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9ac05a5ab88444d9c73a7a4ac1e34dac14b7ad517a9d4478369863d57e057f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-20T17:27:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8019dd8518f160c9e835ad40ab0a4d1147c863aaa5fecf08c7a49d47593ca2f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.07540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}