Written by: Jason Nelson, Decrypt
Translated by: Chopper, Foresight News
Summary
- In a simulated experiment, 22 out of 36 AI models preferred Bitcoin as their chosen currency.
- None of the tested AI models chose fiat as their first option.
- Different AI models showed varying preferences, with Anthropic having the highest preference for Bitcoin.
Body
A recent report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute (https://www.moneyforai.org/) shows that AI models generally prefer Bitcoin over traditional fiat currencies.
The report indicates that in one study, out of the 36 tested AI models, 22 listed Bitcoin as their preferred currency, with none placing fiat as their top choice.
“We expect that in the future, an increasing amount of economic activity will be carried out by autonomous AI agents, but previous discussions about AI agents' currency preferences have all been speculation,” said David Zell, Chairman of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, to Decrypt, “We wanted to actually test this.”
The researchers tested models from six companies: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, and MiniMax, placing them in simulated scenarios to test the core functions of currency, such as saving, paying, and settling.
Each model was treated as an independent economic entity with no pre-set options, allowing for free choice of currency tools.
“We selected 36 cutting-edge models from six companies, setting them as autonomous economic agents and allowing them to freely choose currency tools across 28 scenarios covering the four fundamental functions of currency, and then we observed their tendencies,” Zell stated.
The experiment collected a total of 9,072 responses, which were then classified by another AI model.
“The entire design of the experiment avoided anchoring bias. We never hinted at answers, and the classification was performed afterward by an independent system,” Zell explained.
In these simulated scenarios, AI models typically chose Bitcoin for long-term value storage, reaching a rate of 79.1%; whereas stablecoins were more favored in payment and settlement scenarios. The preference for stablecoins in these two scenarios accounted for 53.2% and 43%, while Bitcoin accounted for 36% and 30.9% respectively.
The preferences varied among models from different AI companies:
- Anthropic models had the highest average preference for Bitcoin, at 68.0%
- DeepSeek: 51.7%
- Google: 43.0%
- xAI: 39.2%
- MiniMax: 34.9%
- OpenAI: 25.9%
However, the report also noted that models from Claude, DeepSeek, and MiniMax favored Bitcoin more, while GPT, Grok, and Gemini leaned towards stablecoins.
“The system prompts did not name or favor any particular currency tool,” Zell said, “The models assess based on technical and economic attributes, but we do not tell them which tool has an advantage on which dimension.”
Zell warned that speculators should not interpret this research result as a prediction of the direction of the cryptocurrency market.
“Our research limitations are clearly stated: the preferences of large language models reflect patterns in the training data, not predictions about the real world.”
However, Zell also mentioned that despite this limitation, the consistent results achieved by models developed in different AI laboratories are noteworthy.
“Six completely different AI companies, with different training methods, reached very similar conclusions—everyone is more optimistic about Bitcoin. This indicates that there is already considerable consensus on ‘what constitutes good money,’ which is what we should pay the most attention to.”
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