Pith Number

pith:HSEZYR3B

pith:2025:HSEZYR3B55V47A2EKTHVP6XB77

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope?

Aidan Kane, David Byrne, Martin Baily, Paul Soto

arxiv:2505.14588 v4 · 2025-05-20 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HSEZYR3B55V47A2EKTHVP6XB77}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T12:09:17.895040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c899c4761ef6bcf834454cf57fae1ffffc9d332a81857d9348e855d5cc982a3

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.14588 · arxiv_version: 2505.14588v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.14588 · pith_short_12: HSEZYR3B55V4 · pith_short_16: HSEZYR3B55V47A2E · pith_short_8: HSEZYR3B

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/HSEZYR3B55V47A2EKTHVP6XB77 \
  | 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: 3c899c4761ef6bcf834454cf57fae1ffffc9d332a81857d9348e855d5cc982a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ede04d6a710014e121ef53ff4730dba56e919c1bfb2fe67211e8f9fc1e68f8ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-20T16:40:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6046deb73782994943bc7f00ccbbfcee95ab1f883fede97111a1716d026411d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.14588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}