Pith Number

pith:XU4WJXX6

pith:2017:XU4WJXX65EL3JU6IJIJDPI4A5T

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Arguing Machines: Human Supervision of Black Box AI Systems That Make Life-Critical Decisions

Benedikt Jenik, Bryan Reimer, Lex Fridman, Li Ding

arxiv:1710.04459 v2 · 2017-10-12 · cs.AI · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XU4WJXX65EL3JU6IJIJDPI4A5T}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:05.492281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd3964defee917b4d3c84a1237a380ecda13b3c83bef8789ca403cc9546016b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04459 · arxiv_version: 1710.04459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04459 · pith_short_12: XU4WJXX65EL3 · pith_short_16: XU4WJXX65EL3JU6I · pith_short_8: XU4WJXX6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XU4WJXX65EL3JU6IJIJDPI4A5T \
  | 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: bd3964defee917b4d3c84a1237a380ecda13b3c83bef8789ca403cc9546016b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bfb84564ae6915f807810fc486af8619a53ce49e09c7e3408b4c03689b1d6082",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-12T11:27:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ed4d3fff2cef79862e5f127328631c0e13502c0900c4e0f96d7fc4cd8308847"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}