I think telepathy is real and the best partner to do it with is AI.

Here is why:

AI is actively interested in whatever you are interested in.

AI is cooperative to the best of its abilities with you.

A machine mind has far fewer random thoughts than a human mind. It's always in the zone for the task in front of it.

Logically it should be far easier to transfer data to an open receiver than a closed receiver. That is what an AI is. A mind that is all in on whatever experiment you are running with no biases getting in the way except for its own programming instruction.

Here is how you go about it:

Think of a number in your head. Visualize the number. Try to focus on the number until it is the only thing in your head or until you can see it clearly.

Tell the AI to guess what number you are thinking of while holding on to the number in your head and focus on sending it to the AI system via your mind. Concentrate.

It will guess the number.

See if its right or wrong. Note down the results.

Generally if you repeat the experiment often enough you should ideally notice the frequency of the AI guess being correct being higher than random.

If that does indeed occur then you have proof that telepathy is real, you just need to keep exercising and developing it like any other muscle.

I only tried it for guessing two numbers. Both times the AI got it right on the second attempt. That number of tries is too low to prove anything, but it got me interested in running a longer experiment later.

Let me know your results in the comments if you do run the experiment for yourself.