The people who have the training to be good citizen scientists enabled by AI are already working in technical fields, probably as scientists in formal name or not.

Your neighbor on the other hand has good odds that they read to a 6th grade level or worse, and believes the president at his word because he's signaled he also hates minorities.

As the famous quote goes, "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land— the common clay of the new West. You know... morons."