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pith:2026:ZKXB5SI6AJD7SS7GIOCCAT73WJ

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AI-Augmented Science and the New Institutional Scarcities

Lauri Lov\'en

AI produces competent judgment at near-zero marginal cost, forcing scientific institutions to compete directly for the role of manufacturing legitimate judgment.

arxiv:2605.02566 v2 · 2026-05-04 · cs.CY

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Claims

C1strongest claim

The frontier for AI-augmented science is not acceleration; it is the redesign of the certifying infrastructure around these new scarcities.

C2weakest assumption

That competent-looking judgment, including selecting, ranking, attributing, and certifying, is now produced at scale at marginal cost approaching zero by AI, inverting the dominant economics-of-AI reading and placing scientific institutions in direct competition with AI for the functional role of manufacturing legitimate judgment.

C3one line summary

AI makes judgment cheap at scale, so scientific institutions compete with it and must redesign certification infrastructure around the new scarcities of verified signal, legitimacy, authentic provenance, and integration capacity.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-26T02:03:13.862172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caae1ec91e0247f94be64384204ffbb25e894764d213eb58232b90c062ecd0d6

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.02566 · arxiv_version: 2605.02566v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.02566 · pith_short_12: ZKXB5SI6AJD7 · pith_short_16: ZKXB5SI6AJD7SS7G · pith_short_8: ZKXB5SI6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZKXB5SI6AJD7SS7GIOCCAT73WJ \
  | 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: caae1ec91e0247f94be64384204ffbb25e894764d213eb58232b90c062ecd0d6

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-04T13:16:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81c1bc9b3cbe6a7a964072fb1394727b564e3c713fe43687134e578e8ace5b03"
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