Policy3 min read
NeurIPS Reverses China Researcher Ban — But the Geopolitical Fracture in AI Is Real
The world's largest AI research conference briefly announced a policy change that would have restricted Chinese researchers' participation — then reversed it under widespread backlash. The episode lasted less than 48 hours, but it exposed a fault line that AI's global research community has been carefully avoiding: AI research and geopolitics are becoming inseparable.