Well, I tested the game without AM and their free will returned to normal. I'm thinking it's conflicting with one of my mods (I have like 20 mods installed). When I have time, I'm going to run the game with only AM and twallan's Master Controller (because it's confirmed that they don't conflict) and see what happens.
My hypothesis is that it might be conflicting with twallan's Story Progression because I noticed that inactive sims' free will has also been affected. Even though I didn't turn on AM's story progression, it might still be a problem.