AI researchers submitting to NeurIPS conference must now address ethical concerns

Khari Johnson, writing for Venture Beat:

For the first time ever, researchers who submit papers to NeurIPS, one of the biggest AI research conferences in the world, must now state the “potential broader impact of their work” on society as well as any financial conflict of interest, conference organizers told VentureBeat.

NeurIPS requires AI researchers to account for societal impact and financial conflicts of interest

NeurIPS, or the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, is the largest AI conference in the world.