Trey had struggled with alcoholism for 15 years, eventually drinking heavily each night before quitting in December. He recently asked the app’s “chat with your mind” function how he had become more wise through all his AI-assisted psychedelic trips. It’s kind of crazy.”Trey isn’t the only one going on AI-assisted psychedelic trips, providing a window into a not-so-distant and somewhat dystopian future, where an intense and potentially transformative experience could be guided legally not by a human, but a bot. Outside of Oregon, Colorado, and Australia, psychedelic therapy remains mostly illegal for drugs aside from ketamine, which is a legal anesthetic that is also prescribed off-label for therapeutic use. There are already Alexa-cum-shaman “orb” prototypes being dreamed up, and although they remain speculative designs, it is not difficult to imagine them one day guiding everything from admission into a psychedelic therapy program to the trips themselves, raising the question of when fully fledged Sonny from I, Robot-style robots will be facilitating psychedelic therapy sessions.