AI Agents Have Already Chosen Their Money: Bitcoin

“Researchers gave 36 frontier AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, and xAI a straightforward assignment: act as an autonomous economic agent and choose how you want to transact. No currencies were suggested. Across 9,072 controlled experiments, the models chose bitcoin 48.3% of the time. Zero selected traditional fiat as a top preference.”

“Recall that the AI labs that built these models are headquartered in San Francisco. Their training corpora are saturated with mainstream economic thought – Keynesian frameworks, arguments for managed inflation, defenses of central bank discretion. If any school of economics was overrepresented in the text these models learned from, it was the one that defends fiat money.”