Well my minimum standard is that we as a civilization do not steer towards extinction. Or that we reasonably minimize the risk of extinction. If an alien would look at our failed action on climate change, it would think we failed a very basic test for a "rational intelligent civilization".
We are incapable of acting rational as a civilization. This hasn't always been the case, even though people have always been assholes.
There has been much technological progress and social progress for minorities, but negative progress in quite a few very important areas. Raising children, news / social media, propaganda and disinfo, wealth inequality, climate change, consumerism, resource depletion. Gaza, Ukraine, Iran and other wars. Or the insane investment into AI and datacenters is just bonkers. Crisis in science and research. Autonomous killer robots will soon allow complete totalitarian control.
Outdated voting systems that do not allow better democracy. The US can't be called a democracy at all. China as a one party system with is taking better care of their people than the US, because of their socialist roots they actually believe in something besides self serving unlimited greed. The elites and plutocrats in the west believe in nothing.
And the trouble is that with technological progress it becomes increasingly more possible to make ourselves extinct. Right now even with all out nuclear war it would be pretty impossible to scrape us off the planet. But add some bioweapons or use mass killer robots or AGI then it becomes feasible. The richest man in the world is actively trying to create a malicious "anti-woke" super intelligence.