China boycotts top AI conference after ban on papers from US-sanctioned entities

China’s largest federation for science and technology professionals on Friday announced a boycott of a top artificial intelligence conference after the California-based foundation that runs the gathering stopped accepting submissions from entities under U.S. sanctions.

The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, known as NeurIPS, announced earlier this week a policy change that effectively banned entities like Chinese ‌tech companies ⁠Huawei and ⁠SMIC under U.S. sanctions from submitting papers.