Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor: AI Operates 24/7, Communicates, Thinks a Million Times Faster than Humans

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy, stated during a discussion at the Bitcoin Policy Institute's Freedom Tech DC that artificial intelligence crossed a turning point earlier this year. He mentioned that even when he locked lawyers, finance professionals, marketers, executives, and himself in a room for a month using the most advanced models, they could not produce documents of equivalent quality. The video was released on October 2, and the recording took place on September 22, with questions posed by the institute's Executive Director Conner Brown.

Saylor compared this gap to dynamite versus a chisel. Given ten thousand willing to work hard, he would still choose dynamite. He claimed that digital intelligence will be a million times smarter, faster, and stronger than humans; once an AI can perform a task, a million AIs can do it a million times an hour. He summarized the issue: hire 10 people or let 10 million geniuses work for free.

He also integrated agents into financial infrastructure. The market still operates on bank hours, from 9:30 AM to 4 PM, with holidays causing shutdowns; a significant amount of credit is conducted off-market via phone calls, and in 2026, bankers still call him to approve wire transfers. He believes this system was formed and stabilized between 1980 and 1990. He stated that the cost of phone trading is about 10 million times higher than it should be. When he had AI scan 96 websites, he calculated it saved him 96 clicks.

Agents are described as operating 24/7, communicating with each other, and thinking a million times faster than humans, with their numbers expected to reach billions. Eyes, fingers, and phones cannot keep up. He compared this to Amazon rendering about 20,000 retail stores obsolete and mentioned that Meta already has robots wanting to buy from Amazon, which fears that robots will complete tasks and people will stop visiting stores. Agents cannot access bank accounts, insurance policies, credit cards, or driver's licenses and can only follow a purely digital path.

He calculated the time comparison for settlements. Gold cannot move at the speed of light, real estate transactions take a year, and agents can accomplish 100,000 tasks while filling out forms; Bitcoin transfers take one minute or one second. A 20th-century interface might take six years and cost $100,000, while AI can complete it in one second for one cent. While there is still debate on whether students should use AI, he stated that 187 million students have already skipped those six steps. The way to combat uncontrolled agents, he said, is to cultivate one's own agents rather than banning them.

The buyer is an agent that requires 24/7 payment and cannot open a bank account, while the seller is banks, insurance companies, and off-market credit that still settle according to human hours. This is an event-driven policy proposal, not a completed agent payment. He shifted funds from wire transfers, real estate, and gold to digital assets that can move in one second. The beneficiaries are digital capital that can be identified and transferred 24/7, while the system that only opens from 9:30 AM to 4 PM is under pressure.

Saylor summarized the rights needed by individuals and companies into five: creation, issuance, custody, transfer, and use of digital assets. He criticized Washington for protecting existing interests and not legislating for products that do not yet exist, insisting that the industry must first achieve 50 million to 100 million users and $10 trillion to $20 trillion in value before debating boundaries.

Source: Public Information