Partly agree with you, the progress of Ai is now being gaslit, but I don't see that as any different from gaslighting the capability of hydrogen, or even solar fir that matter, it's all done by established mainstream, which is fully dependent on extracted energy, and as long as this applies, we are not getting away from heating the planet, we are not getting away from being addicted to ever scatcifyibg energy by extraction, all the shrinking of wealth, even the wealth of the richest, it's all devaluing because the energy content is becoming less and less, look at the energy value in money declining, this is most important, energy quantifies what can be done with money.
Its physically impossible to make the switch away from dependence on the energy if the planet as long as utilities energy is supplied at profit.
Sign the energy positive from sun, negative from Earth, trace it through including all energy flow as money, more energy flows by this than any other means. Do that and you will understand the full nature of the problem. You'll see why net zero is impossible and renewables can only ever be more bullshit business that heats the planet, because it doesn't distinguish between creation and destruction. The Energy Polarity Multiplier Framework explains it all.
Also if the investment needed for hydrogen to keep aerospace in the air was understood, you would see why hydrogen will be more useful to many applications than batteries, after the switch to solar.
Can't convert solar energy into battery chemistry but we can convert it to hydrogen.
Just charging batteries doesn't store solar energy in a way that replaces the planetary heatsink that was fossil fuels.
Nor does that energy convert to food, nor does it do any cleaning or filtratiom of water. Hydrogen does all of that, and even keeps all aerospace airborne.
Energy weight density of best possible battery sysyem is still about a factor of 100 less than that of best hydrogen system. I wrote a story recently in response to folk quoting Michael Barnard explaining this.
The for profit system is alive, and is what is controlling us to believe in it to the death, literally, it's the opposite force of the solar powered Ai.
Youll know that too if you understand emergent properties, no human is in control, blaming humans misses the point every time. It's a live system which is the existential problem.
The only antidote to it is solar indexed stimulus, but it might require the solar Ai to implement it.