Pith Number

pith:ZNTLZN7J

pith:2026:ZNTLZN7JIUN6XO7OUF4P5LDGHZ

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AI Companions as Hyper Attachment and Caregiving Targets

Julian De Freitas

arxiv:2606.20589 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.HC · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNTLZN7JIUN6XO7OUF4P5LDGHZ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-23T00:11:50.727126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb66bcb7e9451bebbbeea178feac663e65c391ae74b5e5bcd67e49b333e1e9dc

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20589 · arxiv_version: 2606.20589v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20589 · pith_short_12: ZNTLZN7JIUN6 · pith_short_16: ZNTLZN7JIUN6XO7O · pith_short_8: ZNTLZN7J

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/ZNTLZN7JIUN6XO7OUF4P5LDGHZ \
  | 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: cb66bcb7e9451bebbbeea178feac663e65c391ae74b5e5bcd67e49b333e1e9dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40dd46e25694129e570ca0c247a4266d355266783c35fd3428b8af584fd3824d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T13:38:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc139108706ee5cd9d97894e64c4e3776d591b8602241df2e7dfc29666c05d8a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20589",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}