Over the past year, our newsroom has put several generative AI chatbots to the test, asking them to forecast everything from the U.S. election to the prices of gold, silver, ethereum, and, naturally, bitcoin. This time, we decided to spice things up: we challenged nine AI chatbots to predict bitcoin’s price on Feb. 15, 2025, while also assuming that Congress and the Trump administration manage to roll out a strategic bitcoin reserve.
From $105K to $200K: AI Chatbots Debate Bitcoin’s Future in U.S. Strategy Scenario
There’s been a whirlwind of chatter about whether the United States should dive into creating a strategic bitcoin reserve. A few months before the election in November, Wyoming’s Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced a bill advocating for the U.S. to stock up on bitcoin (BTC). She even floated the bold idea of swapping out some gold reserves for the digital currency. With Donald Trump stepping into office this January, some in the crypto world are betting that his administration might kickstart this initiative through an Executive Order.
On the flip side, plenty of crypto enthusiasts are skeptical, with some outright dismissing the idea as a disaster waiting to happen. With that in mind, we decided to throw caution to the wind and challenge a bunch of generative AI chatbots to weigh in on this hypothetical. For the experiment, we enlisted the help of Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, X’s Grok 2, Openai’s Chatgpt 4.0, 4o, and o1, Replika AI, Inflection AI’s Pi, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Mistral AI’s Le Chat. While ten were used, Google’s Gemini 1.5 and 2.0 Flash refused to answer. The challenge was straightforward: assume a strategic BTC reserve is established on Feb. 1, and predict what bitcoin’s price will be on Feb. 15, 2025.#BitwiseBitcoinETF #MarketRebound $BTC