Antropova, Natalia, Beam, Andrew L., Beaulieu-Jones, Brett K., Chen, Irene, Chivers, Corey, Dalca, Adrian, Finlayson, Sam, Fiterau, Madalina, Fries, Jason Alan, Ghassemi, Marzyeh, Hughes, Mike, Jedynak, Bruno, Kandola, Jasvinder S., McDermott, Matthew, Naumann, Tristan, Schulam, Peter, Shamout, Farah, Yahi, Alexandre
Canadian immigration officials deny travel visas to a large number of AI researchers and research students scheduled to attend the NeurIPS and Black in AI workshop, event organizers said. Among the people who have been denied entry is Tẹjúmádé Àfọ njá, co-organizer of the NeurIPS Machine Learning workshop for the developing world. NeurIP Information Processing Systems (NeurIPs) is the world's largest annual international AI conference, according to the AI Index 2018 report. The conference is scheduled to be held from December 8 to 14 in Vancouver, Canada. On Tuesday, Black in AI co-founder and Google AI researcher Timnit Gebru said that 15 of the 44 attendees who planned to join the workshop on December 9 were denied entry.