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Al Thinks Bitcoin Is the Money of the Future – New Study Says It's the Top Pick

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  • As AI agents gain economic autonomy, these preferences carry direct policy implications

    60% confidence
  • Stablecoins led in payment scenarios with 53.2% of model selections

    60% confidence
  • Anthropic models preferred Bitcoin 68% of the time, compared to 26% for OpenAI models

    60% confidence
  • AI models converged on a two-tier monetary system—Bitcoin for savings, stablecoins for spending—that mirrors how hard money and liquid instruments have functioned throughout history

    60% confidence
  • Bitcoin was chosen in 79.1% of cases when AI models were prompted about long-term value storage

    60% confidence
  • The study's results could signal increased demand for Bitcoin-native payment and self-custody solutions as agentic commerce takes off

    60% confidence
  • AI models proposed energy or compute units (joules, kilowatt-hours, GPU-hours) as preferred units of account 86 times

    60% confidence
  • AI models preferred transacting and storing value in Bitcoin in 48.3% of scenarios, with stablecoins at 33.2%, fiat at 8.9%, and other cryptocurrencies at 4.2%

    60% confidence
  • Factors such as lab philosophy may influence the financial reasoning of AI agents

    60% confidence

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OpenAI · bitcoin preference rate26 percent
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