On February 4 (local time), the United Nations released a shortlist of 40 candidates for the 'Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence.' This list features two Chinese scientists: Song Haitao, Dean of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Wang Jian, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering. This panel marks the world's inaugural fully autonomous scientific entity aimed at closing the knowledge gap in artificial intelligence and evaluating its ramifications. It functions independently, backed by the United Nations. The UN General Assembly is set to make a conclusive decision regarding panel membership on February 12. UN Secretary-General Guterres emphasized the pressing need to regulate artificial intelligence, highlighting that the panel would aid the global community in discerning fact from fiction, as well as science from pseudoscience.