The AI Monetary Hegemony: Why Dollars, Crypto, and Autonomous AIs Will Soon Clash

There are many developers around the world today creating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can autonomously do millions of useful things, like book airline tickets, dispute credit card charges, and even trade crypto. A recent report from cloud computing company PagerDuty said over half of businesses already use autonomous AI agents, and 35% more plan to within the next 24 months.A few months ago, one nearly autonomous AI called Truth Terminal made the news by becoming the first AI millionaire by promoting crypto currencies it was gifted. While not fully autonomous yet, it’s quite likely by later this year, some AI agents not dissimilar from viruses will be able to independently wander the internet, causing significant change in the real world source: https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/04/22/the-ai-monetary-hegemony-why-dollars-crypto-and-autonomous-ais-will-soon-clash