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Michael Schmid

The Little Helper Paradox

LLM Between Promise and Responsibility

Michael Schmid

$214.95   $182.55

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English
It-Dialog E.K.
02 February 2026
Knowledge management; Artificial intelligence
Can you guarantee that an AI answer is correct? No. Then you cannot sell it as a managed service.

This book asks one simple question: Can Large Language Models function as managed services for critical applications? The answer, developed across 16 chapters with legal analysis, SLA falsification tests, and a running drone development scenario, is: No. Not because the technology is bad. Because the architecture makes it impossible to guarantee what a managed service must guarantee-correctness.

The Little Helper Paradox:

The more an LLM helps, the more you trust it. The more you trust it, the less you verify. The less you verify, the more dangerous the trust becomes.

Michael Schmid brings 43 years of IT experience in critical infrastructures-telecommunications, energy, defense. He has written managed service contracts, negotiated SLAs, and watched providers promise what no contract could deliver. His method is simple: Try to write the contract. If you cannot write one that protects both sides, the business model does not work.

What this book covers:

Why SLAs can guarantee availability but never correctness Why wrong answers are not bugs but expected behavior of stochastic systems What the EU AI Act, Product Liability Directive, and CLOUD Act mean for your contracts Why the core risk of AI outputs is currently uninsurable What actually works: the Researcher Model, version pinning, SLAs for the periphery Practical tools: Template SLA, compliance checklist, GPU infrastructure planning guide

Who should read this:

CIOs, CTOs, IT decision-makers, legal and compliance professionals in regulated industries-anyone who must decide whether and how to deploy AI in environments where errors have consequences.

What this book is not:

Not anti-AI. The author used Claude from Anthropic as research partner and co-author. The collaboration is documented transparently in the appendix. This book is a plea for honesty-not against technology, but against misplaced trust.
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Imprint:   It-Dialog E.K.
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   222g
ISBN:   9783964590312
ISBN 10:   3964590312
Pages:   222
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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