Pith Number

pith:UCJLRJPZ

pith:2026:UCJLRJPZHSMIJYFHZC5PJJ3CLB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are Researchers Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence?

Angelo A. Salatino, Ansgar Scherp, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Sahar Vahdati

arxiv:2605.16294 v1 · 2026-04-14 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UCJLRJPZHSMIJYFHZC5PJJ3CLB}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:15.779065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a092b8a5f93c9884e0a7c8baf4a762585fbee0abd20e36dec2c668c59fb03abe

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16294 · arxiv_version: 2605.16294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16294 · pith_short_12: UCJLRJPZHSMI · pith_short_16: UCJLRJPZHSMIJYFH · pith_short_8: UCJLRJPZ

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/UCJLRJPZHSMIJYFHZC5PJJ3CLB \
  | 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: a092b8a5f93c9884e0a7c8baf4a762585fbee0abd20e36dec2c668c59fb03abe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da799585738feb2a0d2f2da21aba188b39d2c733ef2a08fdeae056cd4047e7ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-14T19:07:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cb35b2a04d85e8ef656bcc6164a4c8f9f00694207f9f9ae3161b6a2ec2f5643"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}