I actually... enjoyed... using AI as a brainstorming partner. It was irritating - I'm so accustomed to being angry with AI. (I'm an English teacher, and some students insist on using it to do writing for them.) But it can actually be used productively and effectively.
I remain concerned about the ethical implications, about addiction, about lack of critical thinking, but it is a tool. So the question becomes, how do we help students reap the benefits without doing harm?