Pith Number

pith:V67OOCMP

pith:2026:V67OOCMP5UZLDHGT5QTJOVRHKB

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Government AI Use as a Monitoring Primitive: A Public Document Pilot Study

David I. Atkinson, Joan Eleanor O'Bryan

arxiv:2607.04543 v1 · 2026-07-05 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V67OOCMP5UZLDHGT5QTJOVRHKB}

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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	2026-07-07T02:19:23.950118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afbee7098fed32b19cd3ec269756275059aca07d3a24b58f43ef1275863b9cc8

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.04543 · arxiv_version: 2607.04543v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.04543 · pith_short_12: V67OOCMP5UZL · pith_short_16: V67OOCMP5UZLDHGT · pith_short_8: V67OOCMP

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/V67OOCMP5UZLDHGT5QTJOVRHKB \
  | 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: afbee7098fed32b19cd3ec269756275059aca07d3a24b58f43ef1275863b9cc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "105842a5de7d61815ff136d61b3b9fe8cd1ce1158f19f557791169120c4b8482",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-05T23:11:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12e6a7e2a26e3d20a759d6d68d90310b1cb739f53711bde17bb139ab93b4cb6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.04543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}