Pith Number

pith:A3PYQVYY

pith:2026:A3PYQVYYW55MOEA2ITA65OWNQN

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When AI Takes Sides on Questions of Faith: Persistent Asymmetries in AI-Mediated Faith Guidance

Brett Israelsen, Josh Coates, Julie Park, Nancy Fulda, Pete Whiting, Sheryl Carty

arxiv:2605.22975 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3PYQVYYW55MOEA2ITA65OWNQN}

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-25T02:01:32.890603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06df885718b77ac7101a44c1eebacd8348d3d02ba4203762149db449217b37aa

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22975 · arxiv_version: 2605.22975v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22975 · pith_short_12: A3PYQVYYW55M · pith_short_16: A3PYQVYYW55MOEA2 · pith_short_8: A3PYQVYY

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/A3PYQVYYW55MOEA2ITA65OWNQN \
  | 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: 06df885718b77ac7101a44c1eebacd8348d3d02ba4203762149db449217b37aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2268219be7394e1b9354ab37d18d682046197da8a51959e0a1ea134752eb6ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T19:05:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10ec25dcce71ed551bf2cd45bb8e754d315dba212129c67abd6b89a15ac23bac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}