Where AI incidents in legal actually come from, and what infrastructure (not policy) prevents them.
Blake Aber · Predicate Ventures · 2026
The policy layer is table stakes. It isn't enough.
When Sullivan & Cromwell apologized to a federal bankruptcy judge in April 2026 for AI hallucinations in a court filing, the firm's apology letter said the firm had policies. Safeguards existed. Those safeguards weren't followed.
That framing, "the safeguard existed but wasn't followed," is how a policy failure gets described. But something more specific happened: a hallucination was generated, wasn't caught at generation time, wasn't caught at review time, and made it into a document that got filed.
