AI Chooses Currency: Bitcoin Wins Big, Fiat Money Unwanted
A recent study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute tested 36 AI models from six companies—Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, and MiniMax—to evaluate their preferences between Bitcoin and traditional fiat currencies in various economic scenarios. In the experiment, AI models acted as autonomous economic agents and made choices across 28 scenarios covering core monetary functions like saving, payment, and settlement.
Out of 9,072 responses collected, 22 of the 36 models selected Bitcoin as their preferred currency, while none chose fiat money as their first option. Bitcoin was strongly favored for long-term savings (79.1% of cases), while stablecoins were more commonly chosen for payments (53.2%) and settlements (43%).
Among different AI developers, Anthropic's models showed the strongest preference for Bitcoin (68.0%), followed by DeepSeek (51.7%), Google (43.0%), xAI (39.2%), MiniMax (34.9%), and OpenAI (25.9%). The study emphasized that the AI’s choices were based on technical and economic attributes derived from their training data, rather than real-world predictive capability. Despite this limitation, the consistent preference for Bitcoin across diverse AI systems suggests a growing consensus on the perceived advantages of cryptocurrency as sound money.
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