Pith Number

pith:VTMZYKWO

pith:2026:VTMZYKWOBT5G7Z7UQAVTQTHIWA

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The coordination gap in frontier AI safety policies

Isaak Mengesha

arxiv:2603.10015 v2 · 2026-02-21 · cs.CY · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTMZYKWOBT5G7Z7UQAVTQTHIWA}

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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	2026-05-21T02:05:00.680694Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acd99c2ace0cfa6fe7f4802b384ce8b018a4d6b911298e410584810fe1c850d7

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.10015 · arxiv_version: 2603.10015v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.10015 · pith_short_12: VTMZYKWOBT5G · pith_short_16: VTMZYKWOBT5G7Z7U · pith_short_8: VTMZYKWO

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/VTMZYKWOBT5G7Z7UQAVTQTHIWA \
  | 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: acd99c2ace0cfa6fe7f4802b384ce8b018a4d6b911298e410584810fe1c850d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a227643721f544edb6450ffa70f5917ca0af77d7852c50d84ba36cf9a4d3b180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "econ.GN",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-21T00:26:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df888a53e44ec29b6aa58d36e84c36c65f9a108ac6687f0615034fcfcd2b39a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.10015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}