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pith:NAGZXA4R

pith:2026:NAGZXA4RY76W6YJY3ZJA76UNHV

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The Human Utility Factor: A Computable Welfare Metric That Reframes AI Governance as a Constrained Optimisation Problem

Sivasathivel Kandasamy

arxiv:2607.26068 v1 · 2026-06-23 · econ.GN · cs.AI · cs.CY · q-fin.EC

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\pithnumber{NAGZXA4RY76W6YJY3ZJA76UNHV}

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First computed	2026-07-30T00:08:17.333847Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

680d9b8391c7fd6f6138de520ffa8d3d73fba6e4fb641d91d67c6d1a19da1c3f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.26068 · arxiv_version: 2607.26068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26068 · pith_short_12: NAGZXA4RY76W · pith_short_16: NAGZXA4RY76W6YJY · pith_short_8: NAGZXA4R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NAGZXA4RY76W6YJY3ZJA76UNHV \
  | 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: 680d9b8391c7fd6f6138de520ffa8d3d73fba6e4fb641d91d67c6d1a19da1c3f

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.CY",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T04:47:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09798541e3e7dbbdc8b0bf11456e23c85e5b77c0339b3e3ad005d40f479bbe2a"
  },
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  }
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