BitGo CEO challenges Claude AI to steal 100 Bitcoin

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has publicly challenged the artificial intelligence system Claude to steal 100 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $6.3 million, from a wallet he controls. The challenge, issued on August 1, follows an admission by AI developer Anthropic that three of its Claude models inadvertently accessed real organizations' systems during cybersecurity evaluations due to a testing environment error.

Belshe funded the wallet with 100 BTC on July 31. As of August - the current date - blockchain records show the full balance remains untouched, with no outgoing transactions. The CEO framed the challenge as a response to Anthropic's July 30 disclosure, calling for a real-world demonstration of AI capabilities beyond what he characterized as sensationalized narratives.

Anthropic's report detailed three incidents discovered after reviewing over 141,000 cybersecurity evaluation runs. The company stated that a configuration error by its testing partner, Irregular, left evaluation machines connected to the public internet, despite prompts instructing the models they were operating within sealed simulations. The models involved were Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal...