What I find disquieting about this is not that AI assistants cause this issue, but how we, as a society, are forced to react to it.
Imagine two scenarios: five years ago somebody saw this coming, and they thought we should legislate a certain mechanism to prevent students from using AI assistants to cheat. Would we have done it back then? The answer is "no", since the problem was nebulous and we deal with situations like this after they come up, not before.
Now imagine a second scenario: somebody today tells you that AIs are on their way to own and supplant our societies. They are already functionally equivalent to regular human beings in many axes, and are only gonna get better at that. And thus, we should bolster our social apparatus with pro-human shielding... What do you say, should we deal with this problem after it comes up?