Pith Number

pith:QK5XUEBM

pith:2025:QK5XUEBMRYU7HM2LDYGBE7YXD5

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Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI

Harvey Lederman, Jennifer Hu, Kyle Mahowald, Siyuan Song

arxiv:2508.14802 v1 · 2025-08-20 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QK5XUEBMRYU7HM2LDYGBE7YXD5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:56:44.670383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82bb7a102c8e29f3b34b1e0c127f171f7ebf5b3569fdee54208c0b95a3deea33

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.14802 · arxiv_version: 2508.14802v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.14802 · pith_short_12: QK5XUEBMRYU7 · pith_short_16: QK5XUEBMRYU7HM2L · pith_short_8: QK5XUEBM

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QK5XUEBMRYU7HM2LDYGBE7YXD5 \
  | 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: 82bb7a102c8e29f3b34b1e0c127f171f7ebf5b3569fdee54208c0b95a3deea33

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-20T15:52:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "538aff98281b14dabf87e4f2f7e2966f86c8de95d6dc6dc3e57352337fbae5bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.14802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}