The Author
David P. Reichwein
In high-consequence systems, the failure is never the malfunction. It is the gap between what a system can do and what it is authorized to do.
David P. Reichwein is the founder and CEO of AI² (Asymmetric Intelligence & Innovation), based in Nashville, Tennessee. Across four decades of fault-tolerant systems engineering since 1986 — nuclear, aerospace, and industrial environments on six continents — he learned that discipline the hard way, refining it across a career that has produced 38+ patents — most of them in fields that have nothing to do with artificial intelligence — before turning the discipline on AI.
That principle became the Authorization Gap™, and the architecture built to close it — the Quadzistor™ and PCR™, protected by twelve USPTO provisional filings. The distributed topology at its core was first glimpsed in the pattern-perception of his nonverbal son, William. Having lived through Argentina's 2002 collapse, Reichwein reads systemic fragility the way most people read headlines.
AI² exists for one purpose: to make authorized action a physical constraint before autonomous systems make the next irreversible decision. The work is not about him — it is about what is best for humanity, and for every intelligence that follows.