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NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student

A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism — not for her opinions about AI, but the way she referred to a Chinese student.

During her keynote presentation on “How to optimize what matters most,” MIT Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard included a slide quoting an excuse given by a “Chinese student who is now expelled from top university” for using AI, with the student supposedly saying, “Nobody at my school taught us morals or values.”

The slide also includes a note from Picard saying, “Most Chinese who I know are honest and morally upright.”

In Q&A footage that was also shared on X, an attendee noted that this was the only time anyone’s nationality was referenced in Picard’s presentation, suggested that it was “a bit offensive,” and urged her to remove the reference if she gave the presentation again — a suggestion that Picard seemed to agree with.

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