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) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit briefing.ai-in-the-am.com