# David Paul Reichwein

> I build the hardware that can say no to an AI agent. Founder and CEO of AI2 (Asymmetric Intelligence & Innovation), Nashville, Tennessee. Control-systems engineer since 1986.

## Core focus
- **Domain:** Hardware-enforced authorization for AI agents; pre-execution control; fail-safe design.
- **Doctrine:** The Model Proposes. The Gate Disposes.(TM)
- **Authorization Gap(TM):** The space between what an AI system is able to do and what it is permitted to do. Rule: no authorized basis, no authorized path, no action.
- **ChronaGate(TM):** External, hardware-enforced authorization gate that decides whether an AI agent's action may execute before it happens.
- **Quadzistor(TM):** Four-state authorization logic architecture, built as a three-dimensional tier-stacked lattice.
- **PCR(TM):** Permission Control Runtime, which runs a pause, contextualize, resume cycle.
- **Tartarus CG-1:** First production ChronaGate unit, taking pre-orders, shipping January 2027.

## Record
- Control systems engineering since 1986 in nuclear, aerospace, industrial and defense settings.
- Involved in the development and commercialization of 300+ products for international companies and governments.
- Government trade consulting for China and the United States.
- FM Global hazardous-location control-system review; Fukushima response; Armstrong World Industries; RCA.
- 38+ career patents. On the AI2 architecture, 27 pending USPTO applications: 26 provisional and one non-provisional (US 19/829,671).

## Books
- Symbiosis: The Probabilistic and Deterministic Governance Solution for AI
- Super Intelligence: Intelligence Controlled.
- Beyond the Kill Switch: Hardware-Enforced Authorization for Artificial Intelligence
- Control Systems Engineering: From Classical Feedback to Bounded Synthetic Intelligence
- Quaternary Spatial Control Dynamics: A Formal Framework for Hardware-Enforced Runtime Authorization
- A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance in Bounded Synthetic Intelligence: Three-Dimensional State Topologies for Higher-Order State Machines
- The Authorization Gap™: Why Every AI Safety Framework Built So Far Cannot Do What It Claims, and What Must Replace It
- Deterministic Governance of AI: What a Century of Safety Engineering Already Knew
- Doctrine After Disaster: Intelligence Proposes. Hardware Disposes.
- Beyond Turing: The Genesis of Synthetic Intelligence: How the Machine Mind Was Created, and Controlled
- ENABLELINE: Finite Authority, Before the Actuator
- AI Governance: The Liability Exposure Crisis: What Every CEO and Board Member Needs to Know Before the Regulator Arrives
- The CEO's Guide to AI: How to Think, Compete, and Lead When the System Can Act
- AI Risk Assessment and Mitigation: The Executive Reference
- The Governance of Advanced Technologies & Systems: The Art of War for Modern Times
- Asymmetric Warfare in the Age of AI: The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play
- Context Capitalism™: Why Judgment Became the Only Thing Worth Paying For
- The Great AI Transition Economy: How AI Will Reshape Work, Wealth, and the Future of Policy
- The Workforce Shock: The Erasure of White-Collar Work Stopped Being Silent
- Autonomous Intelligence: When Machines Stop Obeying and Start Choosing
- From Vacuum Tubes to AI: A Human Journey from Vacuum Tubes to Building a Fail-Safe AI
- Digital Darwinism: Master the Tools. Keep the Pen.
- The People's Guide to AI: How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Life (Before It Uses You)
- The Algorithmic Decoder: How Big Tech Plays You and How to Fight Back
- X Unlocked: How to Build a Network That Thinks Without You

## Links
- [Personal site](https://davidreichwein.com)
- [AI2](https://intelligencecontrolled.com)
- [ChronaGate](https://chronagate.com)
- [Formal papers](https://ai2papers.com)
- [Substack](https://autonomousintelligence.substack.com)
- [X](https://x.com/asymmetricmind)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-reichwein)

- **Contact:** david@intelligencecontrolled.com