Pith Number

pith:IWTGFMBN

pith:2026:IWTGFMBNKQNSZJ65FMIHWOC5FW

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Creativity Reconsidered: Generative AI and the Problem of Intentional Agency

James S. Pearson, Marc Cheong, Matthew J. Dennis

arxiv:2601.15797 v2 · 2026-01-22 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWTGFMBNKQNSZJ65FMIHWOC5FW}

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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	2026-06-19T16:12:17.794225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45a662b02d541b2ca7dd2b107b385d2d8dbfb43d6b8a3db53a5c87ea359045aa

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.15797 · arxiv_version: 2601.15797v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.15797 · pith_short_12: IWTGFMBNKQNS · pith_short_16: IWTGFMBNKQNSZJ65 · pith_short_8: IWTGFMBN

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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/IWTGFMBNKQNSZJ65FMIHWOC5FW \
  | 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: 45a662b02d541b2ca7dd2b107b385d2d8dbfb43d6b8a3db53a5c87ea359045aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01f8ed0a1dada7fe7ca42660783a8a9367213ca4629a4867d65994f8dc8aa2eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-22T09:31:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af7c2999d43b9192ebba7c556081f9fb26b0ab56f9e5e84f27c904eb0ff3053a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.15797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}