Ethics Lab Workshop Day 2 @ Rockefeller University

The workshop will focus on questions that are directly relevant to students and young researchers, including whether student mental health data from school apps should ever be shared with parents or institutions, fairness and bias in AI tools used for grading, hiring, or college admissions, gene editing for traits such as attention or memory, access to expensive new treatments when supply is limited, and the use of brain stimulation or focus drugs for academic performance. Students will make decisions as if they were part of a research ethics board. Through a fast-paced ethics relay, students will rotate through dilemma stations, respond to previous groups’ decisions, and build toward a final discussion where they approve, reject, or revise controversial study proposals. Goals To connect scientific learning with ethical reasoning and to empower students to see how decisions in research, technology, medicine, and education affect students, patients, families, schools, and communities.