NeurIPS sells out before author notification as agents snipe registration in minutes
andrewgwils · x · 2026-09-07
Andrew Ng notes NeurIPS registration sold out weeks before author notifications, worrying the conference will be 'unrecognizable': virtually no community regulars got in, because they weren't using agents to register within minutes of tickets opening — a sign agents are reshaping academic conference access.
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