Pith Number

pith:J6WOXSNJ

pith:2026:J6WOXSNJPVYSOY4N4H2DLNTJC5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Update Opacity: Epistemic Accessibility and Governance Under AI System Change

Andrea Ferrario, Joshua Hatherley

arxiv:2606.00037 v1 · 2026-04-27 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6WOXSNJPVYSOY4N4H2DLNTJC5}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-02T00:03:12.990068Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4facebc9a97d7127638de1f435b669175e1a84fda2660479f4ec48b1d46f443f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00037 · arxiv_version: 2606.00037v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00037 · pith_short_12: J6WOXSNJPVYS · pith_short_16: J6WOXSNJPVYSOY4N · pith_short_8: J6WOXSNJ

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/J6WOXSNJPVYSOY4N4H2DLNTJC5 \
  | 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: 4facebc9a97d7127638de1f435b669175e1a84fda2660479f4ec48b1d46f443f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6b17e95772221a09ac92d00e53b4766a70cba88286b11524dca0332a646f872",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-27T19:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4882e5ae1dc3746ac9adb042b32f66acee450fd999cd40e17468f6dd67044a21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}