> Students’ reliance on AI “ has paradoxically raised the floor of class discussion to a generally better level in courses with difficult concepts, but has also tended to preclude stranger, more eccentric and original thoughts,”

The challenge is that this is overwhelmingly the reason people go to college in the first place. They want to raise the economic floor of their lives and have greater certainty in the outcome. Precluding strange and eccentric outcomes is certainly acceptable or even desirable with respect to that goal.