Pith Number

pith:MBN2NNUS

pith:2015:MBN2NNUSUS2ROB5JJ4DI7WQEUJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Verifiably Ethical Robot Behaviour

Alan F. T. Winfield, Louise A. Dennis, Michael Fisher

arxiv:1504.03592 v1 · 2015-04-14 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBN2NNUSUS2ROB5JJ4DI7WQEUJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:50.459668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

605ba6b692a4b51707a94f068fda04a26a8769365ddadd28c679918f5eba78ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03592 · arxiv_version: 1504.03592v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03592 · pith_short_12: MBN2NNUSUS2R · pith_short_16: MBN2NNUSUS2ROB5J · pith_short_8: MBN2NNUS

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/MBN2NNUSUS2ROB5JJ4DI7WQEUJ \
  | 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: 605ba6b692a4b51707a94f068fda04a26a8769365ddadd28c679918f5eba78ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ee88c7e8ccdebdb5aeb77f884f3f33741cda2cb022653698c2da1689cd87365",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-14T15:49:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "388a869d7f9a85c3d3ba1417554f85a6ac4a97f54de6cac5869a6cfe0f28ef56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03592",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}