I have figured out a very, very simple workaround to kill this UI element on Chrome
1 - Install this plugin for Chrome, "Custom CSS by Denis"
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/custom-css-by-denis/cemphncflepgmgfhcdegkbkekifodacd
2 - While you are on any outlook page (ie, outlook.office.com), click the "CSS" icon in your Extensions list to launch the CSS editor
3 - The first time you open this extension on any particular site, you will see a permissions window first - "Need permission to edit outlook.office.com" - grant those permissions
4 - Click the CSS icon again, which will now show you a text box captioned "Styles for outlook.offfice.com"
5 - Enter this text in the box and press enter
.Yd98x {display:none!important;}
6 - If you are on a message detail window, you should see the Copilot Summary box disappear instantly.
7 - If you use multiple computers - you will have to authorize permissions for the extension on each machine, separately, but - after you grant permissions - if all of your machines are logged into the same Google account - the CSS you had saved on your first machine should already be loaded back up for your on the next machine.
8 - Cautions
- This may not work forever - if Microsoft changes the class name of the Copilot block in their HTML, this code will need to be updated.
- I don't have any way of guaranteeing this is the correct class name for all users but it has been working consistently for me across a few machines today. The class name may be different on other versions of Outlook (such as personal addresses on outlook.live.com, etc.)
- I didn't author this plugin, it does seem safe in my own personal judgement, but security evaluations are up to you.