As the core driving force of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution, artificial intelligence been playing an important role in promoting high-quality economic development, industrial digital transformation and intelligent upgrading, and has become a strategic commanding point actively occupied by all countries, which has received great policy and financial support. By combing through the literature on the employment impact of artificial intelligence from the three aspects of total employment, employment structure and income distribution, it presents the impact that artificial intelligence has had or may cause on the labor market.Some prospects are proposed on the basis of summarizing the inadequacy of existing research on the employment impact of artificial intelligence.