Pith Number

pith:QDMVOGS6

pith:2026:QDMVOGS6YLMV3LCQZQ35H2BKZ5

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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

Carl Bergstrom, Eamon Duede, Kevin Gross, M.J. Crockett

arxiv:2607.17397 v1 · 2026-07-19 · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QDMVOGS6YLMV3LCQZQ35H2BKZ5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-21T01:21:31.039734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80d9571a5ec2d95dac50cc37d3e82acf4a9dbbdf266677c75b41e89d98ee8843

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.17397 · arxiv_version: 2607.17397v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.17397 · pith_short_12: QDMVOGS6YLMV · pith_short_16: QDMVOGS6YLMV3LCQ · pith_short_8: QDMVOGS6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QDMVOGS6YLMV3LCQZQ35H2BKZ5 \
  | 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: 80d9571a5ec2d95dac50cc37d3e82acf4a9dbbdf266677c75b41e89d98ee8843

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b418dda1bd8f737fb6787a40e4e8b7480d8c2fb6b9d5ed00d41743004c0f8c24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-19T20:12:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddf58e2833abe202a954cbdb309f0d8388c3da38ea3f1a49485dd5f6e7d26f8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.17397",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}