Bitcoin Wins AI ‘Best Money’ Vote: Anthropic Leads, OpenAI Lags
Bitcoin was selected as the top monetary instrument in an experiment by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), which prompted 36 AI models from six providers to act as autonomous economic agents. The models evaluated monetary roles—store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account, and settlement—across 9,072 neutral, open-ended scenarios.
Bitcoin received 48.3% of all responses, followed by stablecoins at 33.2%. Fiat and bank money accounted for only 8.9%. In long-term store-of-value contexts, Bitcoin dominated with 79.1%, while stablecoins led in everyday payment scenarios at 53.2%, suggesting a “two-tier” monetary system: Bitcoin for savings, stablecoins for spending.
Anthropic’s models showed the strongest preference for Bitcoin (68.0% on average), while OpenAI’s models were least likely to choose it (25.9%). The study highlights Bitcoin’s perceived advantages, such as its capped supply and predictable monetary policy, and suggests that AI agents may drive future demand for Bitcoin-native infrastructure.
bitcoinist03/06 05:02
