Pith Number

pith:Z32ISADF

pith:2026:Z32ISADFN5RNDHONCJO4B2CRIM

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The AI Cognitive Trojan Horse: How Large Language Models May Bypass Human Epistemic Vigilance

Andrew D. Maynard

arxiv:2601.07085 v2 · 2026-01-11 · cs.HC · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z32ISADFN5RNDHONCJO4B2CRIM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-27T02:06:13.380088Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cef48900656f62d19dcd125dc0e85143226d5f4cf063243825967153b6289748

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.07085 · arxiv_version: 2601.07085v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.07085 · pith_short_12: Z32ISADFN5RN · pith_short_16: Z32ISADFN5RNDHON · pith_short_8: Z32ISADF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z32ISADFN5RNDHONCJO4B2CRIM \
  | 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: cef48900656f62d19dcd125dc0e85143226d5f4cf063243825967153b6289748

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-11T22:28:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33550733bfa896506d93fe2f35ec4152d5cb5e2570e9c6278fe9252673cdd7e6"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2601.07085",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}