Pith Number

pith:SEOYCUEF

pith:2026:SEOYCUEFNHKIIL6GWDHWAIUATW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sovereign by necessity? Frontier AI export controls, cyber security, and the limits of national AI capability

Alan Woodward, Andrew Rogoyski

arxiv:2608.13272 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.AI · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SEOYCUEFNHKIIL6GWDHWAIUATW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-08-14T01:00:49.724959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

911d81508569d4842fc6b0cf6022809db74fd8fc98990a5c1a147ccaa4533ce5

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13272 · arxiv_version: 2608.13272v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13272 · pith_short_12: SEOYCUEFNHKI · pith_short_16: SEOYCUEFNHKIIL6G · pith_short_8: SEOYCUEF

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/SEOYCUEFNHKIIL6GWDHWAIUATW \
  | 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: 911d81508569d4842fc6b0cf6022809db74fd8fc98990a5c1a147ccaa4533ce5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6dcb454e0125a083ac7de0e3c0a2ade96f541de452b0cad12cc8b6d5799c6b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T14:09:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2135c7dd5e9669bb9ad03416ca8c4e05a3f3990cdfe96c8aac9370afd639a0c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13272",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}