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Thinking Out Loud: Students Navigate Ethical cases in AI, Therapy, and Care
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Back to IE Mental Health Awareness Month 2026: A Month of Emotions
Thu, Feb 19, 2026
6:30 PM – 8 PM (GMT+1)
IE TOWER
T-03.02
IE Tower, Paseo de la Castellana 259E
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As part of IE Mental Health Awareness Month, this student-led event invites participants to explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in therapy and emotional care.
Organised in collaboration with the Public Speaking Club and the Big Data & AI Club, the session is designed as a reflective and structured conversation rather than a technical panel or formal debate. Participants will be at the centre of the discussion, encouraged to think out loud, reflect critically, and engage with complex questions around AI, psychological support, and human presence.
The conversation will be supported by two expert voices:
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Rani Biswas, therapist, who will bring a clinical and relational perspective on therapy, emotional care, and what makes psychological support meaningful beyond advice or validation.
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Iñigo Cavestany, IE professor and AI specialist, who will contribute an ethical and technological perspective on what AI can and cannot currently offer in the context of emotional and psychological support.
The event will be structured around prompt-based conversation rounds, allowing time for individual reflection, clarification questions to the experts, and short student interventions moderated by the Public Speaking Club. The aim is to prioritise depth, listening, and critical thinking, while creating a psychologically safe space for exploration.
Participants attending the event will receive a certificate of attendance, suitable for sharing on LinkedIn, signed by the Vice Rector of Student Affairs and the presidents of the participating clubs.
Open to all students interested in mental health, therapy, AI, and the future of care.
File Attachments: How_People_Are_Really_Using_Gen_AI_in_2025
Speakers
Susmita Rani Biswas
Psychologist
IE University
Rani Biswas is a guidance counselor at IE University, where she provides socio-emotional support to students in an international and multicultural academic setting. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (2013) and has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across both clinical and educational contexts.
In addition to her work at IE, Rani runs a private practice offering therapy, coaching, and psychological evaluation services. Her professional interests include emotional wellbeing, identity, relationships, and how psychological care can remain human, relational, and ethically grounded in times of change and uncertainty.
Iñigo Cavestany
IBM AI & Data Build Lead & IE University Professor
IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icavestany/?originalSubdomain=es
Iñigo Cavestany de Villegas is a professor at IE University and an AI specialist with extensive experience bridging technology, innovation and real-world impact. He has worked in leadership roles at IBM and contributed to technology ecosystems through advising startups, mentoring students, and building educational programs — including AI literacy initiatives at IE.
At IE, Iñigo teaches and mentors across degree and master’s programs, bringing perspectives from entrepreneurship, cloud technology, open ecosystems and ethical engagement with data and AI. His work focuses on understanding how emerging technologies shape our social and professional environments, while helping students reflect on innovation through a human-centered lens.
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Co-hosted with: IE Public Speaking Club, IE Big Data & AI Club