Pith Number

pith:IGJUOK5H

pith:2022:IGJUOK5H4NYAESL6JSOJTKTGKI

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Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?

Joseph Carlsmith

arxiv:2206.13353 v2 · 2022-06-16 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IGJUOK5H4NYAESL6JSOJTKTGKI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:54:40.552758Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4193472ba7e37002497e4c9c99aa6652290145f96edbac619a3a5bc9c50b2efc

Aliases

arxiv: 2206.13353 · arxiv_version: 2206.13353v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.13353 · pith_short_12: IGJUOK5H4NYA · pith_short_16: IGJUOK5H4NYAESL6 · pith_short_8: IGJUOK5H

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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/IGJUOK5H4NYAESL6JSOJTKTGKI \
  | 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: 4193472ba7e37002497e4c9c99aa6652290145f96edbac619a3a5bc9c50b2efc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85953d965a76793781726838d27555f3f8148a8674140f6c9bedd5c0807be943",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2022-06-16T17:58:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd062eb06e1080fdf6341081b4fa49c16b2e0ff064a6860e4662be71f749ea34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2206.13353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}