Pith Number

pith:O24ZW2LV

pith:2026:O24ZW2LV7WTDPRCFDIM3MM6QWJ

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Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science

Honglin Bao, James A. Evans, Shiyun Cao, Sida Li, Siyang Wu, Xiao Liu

arxiv:2606.08251 v1 · 2026-06-06 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O24ZW2LV7WTDPRCFDIM3MM6QWJ}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:31.411165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

76b99b6975fda637c4451a19b633d0b2742fdc4a37cab62e780ac23687b452a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08251 · arxiv_version: 2606.08251v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08251 · pith_short_12: O24ZW2LV7WTD · pith_short_16: O24ZW2LV7WTDPRCF · pith_short_8: O24ZW2LV

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/O24ZW2LV7WTDPRCFDIM3MM6QWJ \
  | 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: 76b99b6975fda637c4451a19b633d0b2742fdc4a37cab62e780ac23687b452a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4e4e577a685a9c49c5c4b775d197cd7fc4a3ffb6b286a0d39f71a60159e0bfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T16:39:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "773f5bc68756513259e4746022c152f19eaee42081dde0c8e977a7a87c67dece"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}