Pith Number

pith:NQ6XVQRI

pith:2025:NQ6XVQRII3S2BHSLF7CX2RVH2K

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A Checks-and-Balances Framework for Context-Aware Ethical AI Alignment

Edward Y. Chang

arxiv:2502.00136 v3 · 2025-01-31 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQ6XVQRII3S2BHSLF7CX2RVH2K}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T11:10:50.982852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c3d7ac22846e5a09e4b2fc57d46a7d28aca20be51a8203c1dcde0821db68216

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.00136 · arxiv_version: 2502.00136v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00136 · pith_short_12: NQ6XVQRII3S2 · pith_short_16: NQ6XVQRII3S2BHSL · pith_short_8: NQ6XVQRI

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/NQ6XVQRII3S2BHSLF7CX2RVH2K \
  | 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: 6c3d7ac22846e5a09e4b2fc57d46a7d28aca20be51a8203c1dcde0821db68216

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d0d5975520285211825018a890bfa4a26bf4627a374ec9784bb9c0492d65be2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-31T19:41:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb812bb041471c8a793bbc2bdd77e3b8b62c4245614e2cef902d35249eddc1b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.00136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}