Psymposia x Subliminal Jihad: AI Psychedelic Therapists
Clip from Psymposia’s November 6, 2025 appearance on the Subliminal Jihad podcast, where the group discusses Psychedelic Science Funder's Collaborative donor Steve Jurvetson's vision for a future in which psychedelic therapy is performed by artificial intellignece.
Speakers: Khalid ibn Ya'qub (Subliminal Jihad), Dimitri Poshlost (Subliminal Jihad).
Watch the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-69DgEFlVE
Read Psymposia's "Psychedelic Syndicate" Report: https://www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-syndicate-executive-summary-silicon-valley-maps-lykos-mdma-fda-billionaires/
Transcript
This transcript was generated automatically from YouTube's captions, then cleaned up by removing filler words, repeated words and background sounds. It may still contain errors.
[00:00] One of my favorite details about Steve Jervis from your report is his statement that like it's inevitable and like the na the natural thing to do or something to have like you know in the near future psychedelic therapy won't even be like overseen by humans you know this will still be done but it will be like AI like bots. Yeah, just to prefet this, the implications of this convergence of psychedelics, AI, and surveillance become clear when examining the future that PSFC's Steve Jervson envisions for psychedelic therapy. Quote, "There's no reason in the world that it needs to be a human in the room holding your hand for 28 24 to 48 hours." he told Spirit Territory, describing a future where AI would handle psychedelic therapy while humans quote the lowest cost labor you can imagine served as backup for physical emergencies.
[00:51] All right, so now here's your dramatization of it, which I loved. In Steve Jervson's future, a clinic's observation room might flicker with feeds from thermal cameras, motion sensors, and biometric monitors tracking patients in isolated pods. An underpaid technician without medical training keeps her eyes fixed on the monitors while a palunteer surveillance module tracks her gaze to ensure constant vigilance. In pod 7, a middle-aged man rides on his mat, pupils dilated as the AI therapist speaks in a carefully modulated voice, drawing from training data that includes Grock's revised corpus of human psychology. Tears begin streaming down the patients face while the AI responds with what its musk curated training deemed appropriate, a mixture of radical self-reliance philosophy and warnings about adopting a victim mindset.
[01:39] The technician watches the man curl into himself while the surveillance systems green outline confir confirms he is within acceptable movement parameters. When the patient cries out, "Don't do this to me." The AI continues its approach while the technician stays in her chair. Human intervention is authorized only if the patient tries to breach the pod door.
