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Imagine sitting in your room and suddenly Siri starts repeating “Aum” and levitates into the sky. What will you do? Well, the real question is what can you do? Al and meditation are topics that are currently actualizing in society. Research worldwide has been starting to focus on how artificial intelligence (AI) can guide humans into better-practicing meditation and bring feats into a person’s spiritual journey. From AI-driven meditation to offering guidance to those on their mental health journey through meditation (Nguyen et al., 2024) to VR created by AI to help users attain a better meditative and spiritual experience (Dollinger et al., 2021). Though Al itself has not been fully introduced to meditation, the problem is if AI is introduced to spirituality and meditation, can AI master this? What will be the future of humanity if this occurs? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is defined as the capacity of computers or other machines to exhibit or simulate intelligent behavior. Meditation is defined as the action, or act, of meditating. This paper is from the point of view of a biology major at UNC Charlotte. The purpose of this critical research essay is to contemplate the future of humanity if AI masters Meditation and achieves feats on the journey of spirituality that humans were not able to, and will be done from a historical, scientific, and ethical perspective.