  In requiring that a statement of broader impact accompany all submissions for
this year's conference, the NeurIPS program chairs made ethics part of the
stake in groundbreaking AI research. While there is precedent from other fields
and increasing awareness within the NeurIPS community, this paper seeks to
answer the question of how individual researchers reacted to the new
requirement, including not just their views, but also their experience in
drafting and their reflections after paper acceptances. We present survey
results and considerations to inform the next iteration of the broader impact
requirement should it remain a requirement for future NeurIPS conferences.
