It's never going to be good enough to have it be acceptable for it to do the critical thinking for you. Anyone who thinks otherwise is lying to themselves.

Actually the simplest way to phrase it is to have AI ask you questions that you engage and try to answer instead of the other way around.

I actually plan on providing something on how to properly use it to enhance one's learning.

Surprisingly there is a way but it does require discipline on one's part.

It's not a touhou but this also looks way too smug to be Alice

Yup