David P. Reichwein · Founder & CEO, AI2 (Asymmetric Intelligence & Innovation)
Before an AI agent moves money, changes a setpoint or touches a live system, my gate decides whether it may. If there is no authorization, nothing happens.
The Model Proposes. The Gate Disposes.™
ChronaGate™ is a physical unit that sits between an AI agent and the systems it can affect. It is a circuit breaker for AI: software cannot talk its way past it.
The first production unit. Taking pre-orders on the A-list with no deposit, shipping January 2027.
Request allocationRegistration closed September 30. For results, write to keith@ai2advisory.com.
I was called in to support the Fukushima cleanup, and what stayed with me was a plant whose protection failed when the power running it was gone. That work led to a passive neutron-absorbing composite for reactor equipment, filed in 2011, that needs no power to do its job. I do not want to be called in after the next disaster, so AI2 is putting the safety shutdown in hardware before an AI agent can cause one.
On January 5, 2025, I watched talented young engineers build a system in which software could drive actuators with no hardwired governance. I went looking for who was doing hardware safety for AI and found no one.
Thousands of hours reviewing hazardous-location control systems for Factory Mutual taught me to ask one question first: if this happens, what is the safety shutdown that protects property and people? I am asking that question of AI.
AI2 is an IP product-development and hardware-manufacturing company in Nashville. I co-founded it with Keith A. Pocock (CTO) and Dr. Khaliah Parker-Reichwein (COO).
Defined the Authorization Gap™ and the rule "No authorized basis → no authorized path → no action." Leads ChronaGate™ development, the AI2 formal paper corpus and the AI2 Library of books for engineers, boards, insurers and policymakers.
Called in to support the Fukushima cleanup.
Consulted to the governments of China and the United States on trade.
Logged thousands of hours reviewing Class I, Division 1 explosive-atmosphere control systems. That work is the origin of the fail-safe doctrine behind AI2's architecture.
Joined as a control systems engineer alongside the senior research scientist who ran Armstrong's nuclear development program, then headed the research and development team for 18 years. Developed on-line slurry measurement combining a gamma-radiation density gauge, ultrasonic thickness gauge and nuclear magnetic resonance (US 4,866,385), and worked on an early Allen-Bradley PLC graphical operator interface.
Control systems for aircraft, industrial plants, nuclear infrastructure and weapons systems, where failure meant loss of life. Involved in the development and commercialization of more than 300 products for international companies and governments.
Worked on one of the first line-scan CCD production lines, on the physics of military vacuum tubes, and on the then-new passive infrared motion detector.
Start here · AI2 Press · August 2026
The Probabilistic and Deterministic Governance Solution for AI. Policy without enforcement is a wish. Enforcement without policy is a cage.
Get it on AmazonTwenty-five books for engineers, boards, insurers, policymakers and general readers.
Super Intelligence
Beyond the Kill Switch
Control Systems Engineering
Quaternary Spatial Control Dynamics
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance in Bounded Synthetic Intelligence
The Authorization Gap™
Deterministic Governance of AI
Doctrine After Disaster
Beyond Turing
ENABLELINE
AI Governance
The CEO's Guide to AI
AI Risk Assessment and Mitigation
The Governance of Advanced Technologies & Systems
Asymmetric Warfare in the Age of AI
Context Capitalism™
The Great AI Transition Economy
The Workforce Shock
Autonomous Intelligence
From Vacuum Tubes to AI
Digital Darwinism
The People's Guide to AI
The Algorithmic Decoder
X UnlockedI write daily on the Authorization Gap™ and pre-execution control of AI agents.
Inventor on 38+ patents across a career in nuclear, aerospace and heavy industry. On the AI2 architecture: 27 USPTO applications, 26 provisional and one non-provisional. All 27 are pending.
| Application | Filed | Type | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19/829,671 | Oct 3, 2026 | Non-provisional | Hardware-Isolated Fail-Closed Enforcement Plane for Pre-Execution Authorization of Autonomous and Generative Computing Systems |
| 64/189,108 | Nov 1, 2026 | Provisional | Grant compiler: human-written grants into issuer-signed instruments |
| 64/180,675 | Oct 20, 2026 | Provisional | Hardware authority assignment with a one-time-programmable seat map |
| 64/180,138 | Oct 20, 2026 | Provisional | Quadzistor™ tier-ordered 3D hardware authorization stack |
| 64/180,117 | Oct 20, 2026 | Provisional | Title withheld |
| 64/173,706 | Oct 10, 2026 | Provisional | Three-channel coordination between a central authority and edge gates |
| 64/171,868 | Oct 8, 2026 | Provisional | Reliability-coupled authorization using a governed reference |
| 64/157,181 | Sep 17, 2026 | Provisional | Hardware-isolated, fail-closed authorization circuitry for autonomous machines |
| 64/153,663 | Sep 12, 2026 | Provisional | Bounded self-modifying dynamics under a pinned authorization evaluator |
| 64/152,388 | Sep 10, 2026 | Provisional | Isolated quaternary spatial automaton and fail-safe output circuitry |
| 64/148,705 | Sep 4, 2026 | Provisional | Authorization enforcement gateway and bound credential pipeline |
| 64/146,479 | Sep 2, 2026 | Provisional | Field-simulation solver, predictive safety supervisor and hardware interlock |
| 64/141,252 | Aug 26, 2026 | Provisional | Hardware-enforced spatial authorization of autonomous agents |
| 64/140,387 | Aug 25, 2026 | Provisional | Hardware-rooted continuous authorization attestation |
| 64/134,634 | Aug 2026 | Provisional | Quadzistor™ quaternary logic architecture |
| 64/133,334 | Aug 13, 2026 | Provisional | TARTARUS™ physical containment and hardware isolation |
| 64/131,713 | Aug 12, 2026 | Provisional | Snapshot-addressable context compilation from a user-controlled store |
| 64/127,733 | Aug 7, 2026 | Provisional | ChronaGate™ hardware-enforced authorization architecture |
| 64/097,488 | Jun 24, 2026 | Provisional | Real-time authorization-gated token generation |
| 64/060,242 | May 7, 2026 | Provisional | Distributed quaternary execution gate with hierarchical inhibit |
| 63/988,543 | Feb 23, 2026 | Provisional | Hardware-enforced authorization with physical execution disconnect |
| 63/985,605 | Feb 18, 2026 | Provisional | Deterministic governance via an independent authorization control plane |
| 63/978,147 | Feb 9, 2026 | Provisional | The Quadzistor™: a quaternary logic architecture |
| 63/973,313 | Feb 1, 2026 | Provisional | PCR™ control for high-velocity decision systems |
| 63/965,151 | Jan 21, 2026 | Provisional | Investment-conditioned ensemble forecasting |
| 63/933,280 | Dec 7, 2025 | Provisional | Context-based AI on a multi-axis generative substrate |
| 63/927,771 | Nov 30, 2025 | Provisional | RAP and RQCR AI efficiency architecture |
| Number | Year | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| US 2012/0281803 A1 | 2012 | Published application | Neutron Absorbing Composite for Nuclear Reactor Applications (with K. A. Pocock) |
| US 4,866,385 | 1989 | Patent | Consistency Measuring Device (Armstrong World Industries) |
David Paul Reichwein is the Founder and CEO of AI2 (Asymmetric Intelligence & Innovation), based in Nashville, Tennessee. He specializes in hardware-enforced authorization systems for artificial intelligence, developing deterministic, fail-safe governance architectures including ChronaGate™ and the Quadzistor™ authorization lattice.
For AI2 hardware, licensing, investment or engineering questions, write to me directly.