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ANVE

Private AI, answered · updated 2026-10-07

What should a firm do when AI gets something wrong?
Treat it as a work error with a record: contain, correct, tell, learn.

Short answer. Treat an AI error like any work error, plus a record. Stop the output being used, find where it already went, correct it, tell the people affected, find the cause, fix the process and write it down. NIST’s AI framework asks for incidents and errors to be communicated to the relevant parties, and for processes to track, respond to and recover from them to be followed and documented. A US case shows the stakes: in 2023 lawyers who filed fabricated case citations produced by a chatbot were ordered to pay a $5,000 penalty and to write to the judges falsely named as authors of the fake opinions.

01

Seven steps

  • Contain. Stop using the output. If it has been sent, ask for it to be held or recalled.
  • Trace. Where did it go: a client, a court, a regulator, a decision, a file, another document? Who else used the same prompt or source?
  • Correct. Replace the output with a verified version and correct the record.
  • Tell. Inform those affected and those who need to know, quickly and in plain words. Professional and regulatory rules differ, so check yours.
  • Find the cause, using the list below.
  • Fix the process. Add the check that would have caught it, restrict the task if needed, retrain.
  • Record. What happened, the impact, the cause, the fix, who was told and when.
02

How serious was it?

LevelExampleResponse
Caught before useA wrong figure noticed in reviewFix it, note it, share the lesson
Used inside the officeA wrong summary shaped an internal decisionCorrect it, tell those who relied on it, add a check
Reached a client or third partyA letter went out with an invented clauseCorrect and tell the recipient; a partner decides on any wider notice; record it
Reached a court or regulatorA filing cited cases that do not existInvolve a partner and take legal advice at once; correct it with the authority; consider your professional rules
Exposed dataOne person’s answer showed another person’s personal dataTreat it as a possible personal data breach and security incident, and follow your reporting plan
03

Find the cause

  • The source was wrong or out of date.
  • The source was missing, so the model guessed. Models can produce content that sounds right but is fabricated.
  • The system retrieved the wrong passage, or an old version.
  • A scan was misread.
  • The task was beyond what the model can do reliably.
  • Nobody checked. OWASP calls excessive trust in model output “overreliance” and advises human oversight by reviewers trained to avoid it.
  • Access was wrong: the answer used data the person should not have seen. OWASP gives a user receiving another user’s personal data as one scenario of sensitive information disclosure.
04

Record it

NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework includes, under its manage function, post-deployment monitoring that captures input from users and covers appeal, override, incident response and recovery, and asks for incidents and errors to be tracked, communicated and documented. NIST’s generative AI profile adds that logging, recording and analysing incidents helps information be shared with the right people.

A one-page form is enough: date, who found it, tool, what was asked, what was wrong, impact, who was told, cause, fix, owner and closing date. Review the forms every quarter and look for patterns.

05

A real example

In Mata v. Avianca, a US federal case, lawyers filed a brief containing cases that a chatbot had invented. The court’s sanctions order of 22 June 2023 imposed a $5,000 penalty and required letters to the client and to each judge falsely named as the author of a fake opinion. It was a US court, but it shows what an unchecked citation can cost anywhere.

06

What ANVE says

ANVE is built to make errors easier to catch, not to make them impossible. Every answer is cited, so a reviewer can open the source passage. Each action item in meeting minutes must quote the transcript line it came from, and its owner must be confirmed by a person before it is approved; each confirmation is logged. An agent can take up to seven tool steps per request, and a claim made without a successful tool call is challenged. Every model call is logged by user, which helps trace who used what. The office still checks the work and owns the result.

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Questions people ask

Do we have to tell the client?
If the error affected them or their matter, almost always yes, and quickly. The rules differ by profession and by case, so check your regulator’s requirements and take advice on serious cases.
Who is responsible when AI is wrong?
Set the rule in your policy: the person who sends the work owns it. Regulators’ rules differ, so check yours.
Should staff be blamed for reporting a mistake?
No. If reporting is punished, mistakes are hidden and the same one repeats. Review the process, not the person, unless there was misconduct.
08

What is not real yet

No sealed ANVE unit exists; every image of the appliance on this site is a labelled render. The software runs today on a development machine. No customers yet, no certifications, no delivery date, and the final price is not announced.

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