News Summary

• Cognitive scientist Félix Schoeller met Joshua White, the founder of a psychedelic support phone line, at a conference in 2024.
• The two developed an idea for an artificial-intelligence-powered tool called Lucy, to improve training for people administering psychedelic-assisted therapy.
• Built on thousands of calls with real people, Lucy can present trainees with a range of diverse scenarios and create AI ‘clients’ that speak and sound like an actual person in an altered state of consciousness.