Searching for common epistemic ground should point us to the fact that our minds work or fail along the same lines when we want to know something: sensing-conceiving-judging-action. There is attention and inattention; understanding and the flight from understanding; sound judgment and failure to ask and answer all relevant questions; and taking responsibility or not. I write on this a lot, e.g., https://pierrewhalon.medium.com/just-the-facts-ms-ai-d9bfb3fe3557