When you see the boom mike onscreen that’s the fault of the projectionist who did not frame the film properly. Films are made to bleed off the screen. The novel structure of A.I. made it that much more interesting for me. Big budget film this artful don’t usually get made. You can respect it without liking it.
But Spielberg had final say on editing and that scene (or any other scene for that matter) could have been snipped without affecting the "qualilty" of the movie one bit. All leaving that scene in did was to add poor prodcution to the extensive list of flaws connected with this embarrasment to the Speilberg cannon.