It seems your opinion of outsourcing is outdated by at least a decade or two. Reminds me of this joke in Back to the Future, where young Doc Brown thinks Japane

It seems your opinion of outsourcing is outdated by at least a decade or two. Reminds me of this joke in Back to the Future, where young Doc Brown thinks Japanese tech is cheap and shoddy and Marty has to explain how things have changed. Because if it's like outsourcing, then just like Japan and South Korea, over time China has transformed from "the cheap labor with low inconsistent quality" into the world's engineering hub which surpasses everything domestic in price, scale and quality... all three at the same time. The only reason companies try to diversify right now is because China is becoming ambitious and too powerful, and in case of a US-China conflict, they don't want to be left cut off from all their factories. So if outsourcing to AI is like outsourcing to China, then we know where things are headed as well. Except faster.