Pith Number

pith:PZXI4E26

pith:2016:PZXI4E267GCL7ASWHIQRQVB3O6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The AGI Containment Problem

James Babcock, Janos Kramar, Roman Yampolskiy

arxiv:1604.00545 v3 · 2016-04-02 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PZXI4E267GCL7ASWHIQRQVB3O6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:08.064255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e6e8e135ef984bf82563a2118543b77a30ec202fa195cf512bf53c7201104a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.00545 · arxiv_version: 1604.00545v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.00545 · pith_short_12: PZXI4E267GCL · pith_short_16: PZXI4E267GCL7ASW · pith_short_8: PZXI4E26

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/PZXI4E267GCL7ASWHIQRQVB3O6 \
  | 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: 7e6e8e135ef984bf82563a2118543b77a30ec202fa195cf512bf53c7201104a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "faf9dcbdd38ce8f946f91e79aff0793c3c959e20b16afaad642fee1fd142a19e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-02T19:26:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4dbdf952ae87a66be3246d23fafe0227b6b7b7caf9dc065d4d1b449a709b51ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.00545",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}