Pith Number

pith:3I2MYXRA

pith:2026:3I2MYXRAPIKMCGLEPCK26EDQ4D

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Governing Actions, Not Agents: Institutional Attestation as a Governance Model for Autonomous AI Systems

Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen

arxiv:2606.26298 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.AI · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3I2MYXRAPIKMCGLEPCK26EDQ4D}

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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	2026-06-26T00:15:35.818612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da34cc5e207a14c119647895af1070e0ff300b44dc88476e5241fd8111ffc5c8

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26298 · arxiv_version: 2606.26298v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26298 · pith_short_12: 3I2MYXRAPIKM · pith_short_16: 3I2MYXRAPIKMCGLE · pith_short_8: 3I2MYXRA

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/3I2MYXRAPIKMCGLEPCK26EDQ4D \
  | 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: da34cc5e207a14c119647895af1070e0ff300b44dc88476e5241fd8111ffc5c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8dee7da524d21f75fb20f7e907a637dd918b1a0925bd8135a5ef6cac90436fea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T18:43:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6787d532ba38cfe1d5621f8fc5a101e1f662fb80f07861dba4f2ebd9c82255a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}