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New study finds AI models prefer Bitcoin and digital money over traditional fiat currency
The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), a nonpartisan research organization, released new research today examining how frontier AI models would choose to transact if they were operating as autonomous economic agents. The study tested 36 models from six leading AI providers—Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, MiniMax, OpenAI, and xAI—across 9,072 open-ended monetary scenarios designed to be neutral, with no suggested currencies or predetermined answers.
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