Foreign media: The top international artificial intelligence conference, NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems), announced new rules earlier this week, prohibiting researchers from entities subject to U.S. sanctions from submitting papers, citing the need for its California-based foundation to comply with U.S. law.
This move triggered strong backlash in China. The Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) promptly issued a statement announcing the suspension of receiving applications for funding support to attend NeurIPS, redirecting related resources toward domestic conferences or "international conferences that respect the rights of Chinese scholars."
Facing mounting pressure from China's boycott, NeurIPS quickly apologized on the X platform the same day, stating that the rule was mistakenly published due to a miscommunication with its legal team, and that the policy has now been updated—clarifying that submission restrictions apply only to entities on the SDN list, reverting to previous standards.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1860830358590603/
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