Pith Number

pith:SBLEKLEM

pith:2026:SBLEKLEM6ICIBKHEYDCXQOCPWC

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Metacognition Should Be the Scientific Framework for Bounded and Effective Self-Governance in Generative AI

Amir-Hossein Karimi, Eugene Yu Ji, Igor Grossmann

arxiv:2605.23981 v1 · 2026-05-13 · q-bio.NC · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.HC · cs.SY · eess.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SBLEKLEM6ICIBKHEYDCXQOCPWC}

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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	2026-05-26T01:02:38.868033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9056452c8cf20480a8e4c0c578384fb0b1476c970dfed8a224902e2e65949693

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23981 · arxiv_version: 2605.23981v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23981 · pith_short_12: SBLEKLEM6ICI · pith_short_16: SBLEKLEM6ICIBKHE · pith_short_8: SBLEKLEM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SBLEKLEM6ICIBKHEYDCXQOCPWC \
  | 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: 9056452c8cf20480a8e4c0c578384fb0b1476c970dfed8a224902e2e65949693

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bbcad0ce878a7a3d9cfc1aa8c3f6b5b95f05d07ce653c37c27a8195b339585a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-13T23:40:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fd00327acdc586ac6f58d50fdc19867d6a76692920dd5b5f7bc9ecf8f02e574"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23981",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}