Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide

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China-based researchers make up more than half of all lead authors at NeurIPS.

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  1. Elizabeth Gibney

A key Chinese research organization is set to boycott the prestigious NeurIPS conference, which is run by a US-based non-profit organization, after a row over a policy that initially seemed to exclude many Chinese researchers.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01058-x

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