It is reported that the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) has reversed a policy change that would have banned papers from researchers at entities under US sanctions, following a boycott from China’s largest federation for technology professionals, the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). Initially, NeurIPS announced the policy to comply with U.S. law, expanding previous restrictions that only targeted entities on the U.S. Treasury’s Specially Designated Nationals List. The announcement caused significant backlash in China amid an ongoing AI competition with the U.S., prompting CAST to halt funding applications for members wishing to attend NeurIPS and redirect them to other conferences. NeurIPS later clarified that the restrictions were issued in error due to miscommunication with its legal team and apologized for the confusion, stating that the updated policy would only restrict submissions from those on the SDN list.
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