Pith Number

pith:YGNTJ6SP

pith:2026:YGNTJ6SPXPIU7M6IJPDZCAOW6Z

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Designing for Being-With: Presence Without Personhood in Conversational Human-AI Interaction

Hector Michael Fried, robin hill

arxiv:2605.17194 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.HC · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGNTJ6SPXPIU7M6IJPDZCAOW6Z}

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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	2026-05-20T00:03:44.470137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c19b34fa4fbbd14fb3c84bc79101d6f65edc859b5948003fe0107fb489f0cbd5

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17194 · arxiv_version: 2605.17194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17194 · pith_short_12: YGNTJ6SPXPIU · pith_short_16: YGNTJ6SPXPIU7M6I · pith_short_8: YGNTJ6SP

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/YGNTJ6SPXPIU7M6IJPDZCAOW6Z \
  | 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: c19b34fa4fbbd14fb3c84bc79101d6f65edc859b5948003fe0107fb489f0cbd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02c7871f7dcf754fc22f3cb5b64be38287c58b6b70750c29302cef6b8032f1a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T23:31:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1030a402497142fb502f12bb2c48025d2913bba9a5037e034aa94b6201d54db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}