Unlikely, as there is at least one race (Hivers) who have managed to master jump travel despite virtually no aptitude for psionics.
I think, perhaps, it has something to do with the fact that every instance of jump travel is a concrete example of Schodinger's Box in action, and as such it needs a literal observer to complete its function. Without some qualified observer of the phenomenon, the contents of the 'box' (in this case a starship) cannot either collapse into a single defined state (under Copenhagen interpretation) or manifest into its multiple possibilities (under the Many Worlds interpretation). The end result, from the outside universe's point of view, is that the jump fails somehow, quite often catastrophically.
So, what qualifies as an observer? Obviously, humans and other sentient beings do. But how low does it go? Do dogs, cats and lizards qualify? Ants and cockroaches? Divorce attorneys and social media influencers?
Nobody has ever figured that part out for certain, except that standard issue AI's (like robots and ship's computer systems) don't count, as well as most incarnations of the mysterious Essaray. Tech derived from naturally evolved silicon life (Virus) seems to work, although that is small comfort to the rest of us in Charted Space.
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