Pith Number

pith:P7RAFVM2

pith:2026:P7RAFVM2TMFNPHO6ASCIS4Z3CX

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The Illusion of Opting in AI-Mediated Consequential Decisions

Eugene Yu Ji

arxiv:2605.28210 v1 · 2026-05-27 · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.HC · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P7RAFVM2TMFNPHO6ASCIS4Z3CX}

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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	2026-05-28T01:05:02.680158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7fe202d59a9b0ad79dde048489733b15de0ea21f3af7177327666f246977d0eb

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.28210 · arxiv_version: 2605.28210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.28210 · pith_short_12: P7RAFVM2TMFN · pith_short_16: P7RAFVM2TMFNPHO6 · pith_short_8: P7RAFVM2

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/P7RAFVM2TMFNPHO6ASCIS4Z3CX \
  | 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: 7fe202d59a9b0ad79dde048489733b15de0ea21f3af7177327666f246977d0eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0cbde70a401a5e2b3445ce7e1051253d73d590b37024034f873e53b21df3cc8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.HC",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T09:30:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "159ac65959098be0107c8fb9052857cd67f386766cd7798b2044f84f06de14ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.28210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}