Pith Number

pith:NV2VWJJD

pith:2026:NV2VWJJD543CQDQRYOHMMYX4BP

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It's Safer to Give Personhood to Bears than to Artificial Intelligence

John P. Nelson

arxiv:2606.12440 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NV2VWJJD543CQDQRYOHMMYX4BP}

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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	2026-06-12T00:07:50.836443Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d755b2523ef36280e11c38ec662fc0beee2d60b069be8bcdd7825cd2f08ea53

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12440 · arxiv_version: 2606.12440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12440 · pith_short_12: NV2VWJJD543C · pith_short_16: NV2VWJJD543CQDQR · pith_short_8: NV2VWJJD

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/NV2VWJJD543CQDQRYOHMMYX4BP \
  | 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: 6d755b2523ef36280e11c38ec662fc0beee2d60b069be8bcdd7825cd2f08ea53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e87e5cbdca2a05284591327d6a3959475eaeda600ece5f1d00624c016e4c6500",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T05:05:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fee0048bb23cccafb90d1841e417e4d3f4554ddd18a503e867d53f6a20758fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}