At the 2025 annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (INS), Consortium Co-Chair Francis Shen, JD, PhD led a panel on The Dawn of Highly Portable AI-Enabled MRI Research in the Community: Proactively Addressing ELSI Challenges. Also participating in the session were neuroethics and neuroscience experts Judy Illes, PhD, Olivia Matshabane, PhD, Martha Farah, PhD, and Linda Chaabane, PhD. The session explored the ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of highly portable AI-enabled MRI technologies (pMRI), and featured dissemination of recently published recommendations from an interdisciplinary Working Group, supported by an NIH BRAIN Neuroethics grant (NIH RF1MH123698) based at the Consortium. The panel discussed core ELSI challenges associated with field-based research with portable MRI, including: pMRI utilization of AI, IRB oversight, quality control, community engagement, privacy, safety, incidental findings, return of results, and data management.