They already see AI as assistive intelligence, not as a replacement for human thought. To overcome the issue you mentioned, media practitioners need to shift from this vertical mode of top-down explaining into the horizontal mode of peer-to-peer co-production. We need to democratize journalism so each and every person can participate in collaborative sense-making. Instead of each person just guessing the social norm regarding an emerging issue—“reading the air”—we need to learn to “write the air” and create common knowledge together.