Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor says AI agents will force finance to become as programmable and always-on as the software using it. In a Freedom Tech DC discussion with Bitcoin Policy Institute Executive Director Conner Brown, Saylor argued that AI will automate jobs and business models while making new products easier to build.
His policy answer is cheaper capital formation, more digital-dollar competition, and stronger rights to custody and transfer digital assets. His clearest line was that “freedom starts with the bill of rights.”
Bitcoin sits at the center of that framework. He said, “Bitcoin is the greatest of the digital commodities,” and argued banks should be able to custody BTC and extend credit against it under workable rules. That fits a policy arc BitcoinVersus.Tech has tracked from the White House digital-assets summit to Strategy’s Bitcoin-focused financial ambitions.
The most forward-looking section concerns autonomous software. AI agents can research, negotiate and buy continuously, while traditional finance still relies on human identities, business hours and manual approvals. “The banks won’t give them a bank account,” Saylor said. He expects agents to favor digital wallets, programmable payments and digitally native assets.
That idea is becoming less theoretical. BitcoinVersus.Tech recently covered Shopify opening checkout to browser-based AI agents. Saylor’s argument goes further: digital intelligence, digital money and digital capital could converge into one economic stack.
In a follow-up policy paper, Saylor urged regulators to protect rights to create, issue, custody, transfer and use digital assets. His market-growth projections remain forecasts, not guarantees.
Editor’s Note: The interview was recorded September 22, 2026, at Freedom Tech DC in Washington. Quotes above were checked against a speaker-attributed transcript.
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