Pith Number

pith:UHEHPTOC

pith:2026:UHEHPTOCM5FEP6KOPZSKLI5NZW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation

Benjamin Lange

arxiv:2608.02660 v1 · 2026-08-01 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UHEHPTOCM5FEP6KOPZSKLI5NZW}

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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	2026-08-05T00:38:16.677579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a1c877cdc2674a47f94e7e64a5a3adcda231831eebe6f6e91a2f253c471c2230

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02660 · arxiv_version: 2608.02660v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02660 · pith_short_12: UHEHPTOCM5FE · pith_short_16: UHEHPTOCM5FEP6KO · pith_short_8: UHEHPTOC

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/UHEHPTOCM5FEP6KOPZSKLI5NZW \
  | 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: a1c877cdc2674a47f94e7e64a5a3adcda231831eebe6f6e91a2f253c471c2230

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a5e311896b6c743273a132ab8b9e344812184b746da8c5e7e185328fa50c50c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T14:18:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d0f386014621e150876fba9e776853220a15edaaafbb2b5d40decf58ba7dba9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}