I don’t think the next generation of the US is looking over at the Foxconn dorms and their suicide nets with envy. Even the average manufacturing job still in the US doesn’t pay a living wage (due to unions being destroyed). Not that these tariffs will bring manufacturing back anyway.

current large models like ChatGPT model more “neurons” than are in the human brain

I don’t think that’s true. Parameter counts are more akin to neural connections, and the human brain has something like 100 trillion connections.