You sound like some useless bureaucrat. Oh noes, they didn't publish everything using the form XZC-152 template! And what scientific methodology? You want a scientific proof of when a threshold of where you can be impressed has been crossed? Ignoring the shifting goalposts, for me personally, AI is plenty impressive already by the mere fact that it can write a program that solves my problems from a natural language description. And "world-burning" how? Because water evaporates to create clouds? Using excess water treatment system capacity? Or maybe because they are using gas turbines to power it short-term instead of nuclear/renewables? That doesn't sound to me like an inherent flaw of the technology.