This chapter outlines the practical foundations necessary for navigating the near-term evolution of AI-mediated communication. It addresses the growing importance of communication resilience in a rapidly changing landscape shaped by generative AI. It explores the challenges of maintaining alignment between human intent and increasingly autonomous AI behaviour. Central themes include empowering human agency through transparency, boundary-setting, and co-creative dialogue; ensuring ethical and sustainable communication practices that prioritise dignity, fairness, and cognitive diversity; and advancing AI communication literacy across educational and institutional contexts. The chapter also examines the role of regulatory and institutional readiness in building public trust, accountability, and resilience, and ends by advocating a shift from adaptation to transformation. By bridging technical, ethical, and educational strategies, this chapter equips individuals and institutions to respond meaningfully to change and to shape the communicative future with intention and integrity.