Art school and Ai use

So I'm in an art school for highschool through a magnet program for costume design, advanced history advanced study, theatre crafts for all years of highschool but today I was told by my teacher that he wanted us to use ai to and I quote "enchance" our work and he wants use to have "an open mind" on using ai to "better" our work and I just dont feel comfortable doing so as someone who has struggles with the harmful addictions of ai and knows the harmful use to the planet and other worries and I just don't know what to do about it.