Pith Number

pith:PMIYGK5J

pith:2026:PMIYGK5JXCWBO2MRMMLA2NUH3T

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Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Abhishek Shetty, Andrew Schwartz, Arvind Narayanan, Cozmin Ududec, David Africa, Derrick Chan-Sew, Gillian Hadfield, Harry Coppock, Helen Toner, Konstantinos Voudouris, Magda Dubois, Matilda Orona, Nitya Nadgir, Peter Kirgis, Rishi Bommasani, Sayash Kapoor, Seth Lazar, Shoshannah Tekofsky, Stephan Rabanser, Steve Newman, Tilman Bayer, Toby Pilditch, Viet Nguyen, Yue Ling

arxiv:2607.27191 v1 · 2026-07-29 · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMIYGK5JXCWBO2MRMMLA2NUH3T}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-30T01:24:04.221560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b11832ba9b8ac17699163160d3687dcde1cca8de72b687b4cd1f0971a9f7ec9

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.27191 · arxiv_version: 2607.27191v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.27191 · pith_short_12: PMIYGK5JXCWB · pith_short_16: PMIYGK5JXCWBO2MR · pith_short_8: PMIYGK5J

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PMIYGK5JXCWBO2MRMMLA2NUH3T \
  | 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: 7b11832ba9b8ac17699163160d3687dcde1cca8de72b687b4cd1f0971a9f7ec9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb87e3edcf833944a519e0047b707e26148cf8bc6137dadbec5daf489e981138",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-29T17:57:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b2cfca672465ed880e97e877b8b65086e85616e8504ae41e63cbe5c2bc645dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.27191",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}