I have no doubt that there are "AI" implementations that can interact with the world in a way that occasionally mimics intelligence, but to ascribe any autonomy or ability to independently intend anything to them is premature. Giving them bitcoin to spend intelligently would be like giving bitcoin to a college student and expecting him to not waste it all on blow and hookers. 

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I think it ties into the whole machine to machine payments vision people have had even pre-bitcoin. I also don't think it's that far fetched. But I hear that it's maybe a little early to classify it as A Thing.

The @hn bot here while not AI is both earning and spending bitcoin. We are a relatively artificial environment for such a thing, but I do think people will create freer and freer economic agents that consume and provide value using money that doesn't care if you're a person or a machine.