Pith Number

pith:VTVKQBW6

pith:2026:VTVKQBW6CDVHHCEWGIT6BK4B5S

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Will AI Agents Free Us From Meaningless Work? A Human-Centered Analysis

Daniele Quercia, Davide Ghia, Jaspreet Ranjit, Tania Cerquitelli

arxiv:2606.12430 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTVKQBW6CDVHHCEWGIT6BK4B5S}

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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	2026-06-12T00:07:50.622341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aceaa806de10ea7388963227e0ab81ecbc62f17dd9eae4cce0683dbfc8000c3f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12430 · arxiv_version: 2606.12430v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12430 · pith_short_12: VTVKQBW6CDVH · pith_short_16: VTVKQBW6CDVHHCEW · pith_short_8: VTVKQBW6

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/VTVKQBW6CDVHHCEWGIT6BK4B5S \
  | 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: aceaa806de10ea7388963227e0ab81ecbc62f17dd9eae4cce0683dbfc8000c3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "016bacc013ff798257a1232f1b33efe64cc9f20aacfdf4a091a8b2fae8091b92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T14:34:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee0f93e55d43fe9864eaef423e49f5fd578bd67d041f8cc44d7f201a8cfd2bef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12430",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}