Pointing out that regressive Ai politics likely are not going to help researchers crisis of purpose is not unethical.
You also assume in your comment that we need new large generations of researchers, and that knowledge transfer through academic institutions is important.
I get the fear. But entertaining ideas of impact to institutions and potentially new post ai institutions is not unethical.
But, here many people are okay with the concept of stealing other ideas, plagiarism, unethical aspects of collaboration in research. At least for me and many people I know, this is no okay. This is the part for morality and ethics. I see that no everyone agrees with this.
The issue is, these AI ecosystems don't effect everyone equally. Not everyone knows how to judge AI model output accurately. There is already a large divide on AI usage in research. The fear comes from this. If we wait longer, it might be alright too late. I could be also wrong with these speculations but better to cautious.