AI:AM — AI Agents in Production and China’s Rules of Deployment · September 10, 2026

AI agents are forcing a rethink of safety, jobs, and what it means to deploy models in the real world. Collin Hogue-Spears explains how China’s model registries, filing rules, GPU constraints, and incident monitoring shape deployment, while Amir Haghighat of Baseten breaks down sandbox boundaries, egress controls, and open-model production runtimes.

Chapters

(0:00) AI agents are already here.

(0:54) The US waits for disaster.

(1:53) Can it talk its way out?

(2:19) AI agents could terraform us.

(2:59) Morning and viral backlash

(6:15) Tracing the backlash

(12:56) Testing the conspiracy theory

(20:09) AI safety's blind spot

(25:56) Data center politics

(30:59) AI agents wake people up

(34:04) Meet Collin Hogue-Spears

(38:01) AWS China and MLPS

(42:37) China's practical AI focus

(45:34) How China's AI rules work

(47:12) Chinese and US AI rules

(49:13) AI model registries

(50:24) GPU limits drive efficiency

(54:02) Continuous model monitoring

(57:22) Responding to repeated incidents

(1:07:26) US-China AI negotiations

(1:10:52) Why China won't slow down

(1:14:56) US AI regulation

(1:16:54) Amir Haghighat and Baseten

(1:17:35) Sandbox security boundaries

(1:19:48) Chinese models and backdoors

(1:23:23) Inference to agent runtimes

(1:23:48) Customer assurance process

(1:24:23) Stream reset and GPU economics

(1:31:29) One API key for AI models

(1:32:56) The AI-rights debate

(1:39:17) Utilitarianism and AI rights

(1:52:52) Why people work in AI labs

(1:54:08) GPT-4 safety lessons

(2:07:54) Markets and the AI takeover

(2:10:24) Agents beyond chatbots

(2:22:16) Crypto, China, and markets

(2:26:52) Why China is less fearful

(2:31:51) AI safety and power

(2:39:30) The American AI test

(2:41:05) Closing thoughts

Guests

Amir Haghighat — co-founder and CTO, Baseten (𝕏)

Collin Hogue-Spears — Author, From Lab to Life: How AI Works in China, Independent Researcher (LinkedIn)

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