Pith Number

pith:UDHK5B66

pith:2026:UDHK5B66M73QE2SIWY6HLTNTBT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evolution & Foundation: AI Shares Creative Control

Dylan Banarse, Frederic Fol Leymarie, Stephen Todd, William Latham

arxiv:2606.16849 v2 · 2026-06-15 · cs.NE · cs.GR · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UDHK5B66M73QE2SIWY6HLTNTBT}

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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	2026-06-19T16:11:38.141834Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0ceae87de67f7026a48b63c75cdb30cfc668bea7e7e94e981dc2c7d0e43bb31

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.16849 · arxiv_version: 2606.16849v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.16849 · pith_short_12: UDHK5B66M73Q · pith_short_16: UDHK5B66M73QE2SI · pith_short_8: UDHK5B66

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/UDHK5B66M73QE2SIWY6HLTNTBT \
  | 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: a0ceae87de67f7026a48b63c75cdb30cfc668bea7e7e94e981dc2c7d0e43bb31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8bf3ceca0cd8f45be5105433741f2ca7e83870b4e02a9234caa9277cf05c759",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GR",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T15:25:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58bbb5b99dba719a2d376eec9978814f451703f1a2ec6839377deba99ab82614"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.16849",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}