Pith Number

pith:LUOFXDUX

pith:2025:LUOFXDUXQLTKMLA47EPL3EQXO4

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The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value be Ascribed to an AI-Generated "Sacred" Text?

Murray Shanahan, Robert Thurman, Tara Das

arxiv:2507.20525 v4 · 2025-07-28 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LUOFXDUXQLTKMLA47EPL3EQXO4}

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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	2026-07-05T11:48:27.851006Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d1c5b8e9782e6a62c1cf91ebd9217773b5af5fc00ab005ec545f14fe0a9be11

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.20525 · arxiv_version: 2507.20525v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.20525 · pith_short_12: LUOFXDUXQLTK · pith_short_16: LUOFXDUXQLTKMLA4 · pith_short_8: LUOFXDUX

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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/LUOFXDUXQLTKMLA47EPL3EQXO4 \
  | 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: 5d1c5b8e9782e6a62c1cf91ebd9217773b5af5fc00ab005ec545f14fe0a9be11

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8fc95aaea3785c0bafe33ec0ae116f63b38bdbc6816c093cda1ee7ced7aa5e55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-28T05:12:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5df380af13dec77837933d4608e6ef555300dd0153e38d8655ce5494907d138c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.20525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}