Pith Number

pith:MWONWXX4

pith:2025:MWONWXX4LZCIQSDUB6Q572GCX7

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The Societal Response to Potentially Sentient AI

Lucius Caviola

arxiv:2502.00388 v2 · 2025-02-01 · cs.CY

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\pithnumber{MWONWXX4LZCIQSDUB6Q572GCX7}

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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.

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Mapping the Parasocial AI Market: User Trends, Engagement and Risks

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:41:20.318584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

659cdb5efc5e448848740fa1dfe8c2bff1f075f2b750ad0f56dc710c7dbc92dd

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.00388 · arxiv_version: 2502.00388v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00388 · pith_short_12: MWONWXX4LZCI · pith_short_16: MWONWXX4LZCIQSDU · pith_short_8: MWONWXX4

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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/MWONWXX4LZCIQSDUB6Q572GCX7 \
  | 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: 659cdb5efc5e448848740fa1dfe8c2bff1f075f2b750ad0f56dc710c7dbc92dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2129d5406033a0bc2ccf362d360ef2610e438e7a9547cad341be70ce558af96d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-01T10:22:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49c0a13dd42e1400bf4c5028059bf057d8b131aeed0aa02f8351ecfd4d353c91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.00388",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}