Abstract: Why artificial intelligence applications can be embedded in public governance and how to give full play to the value of artificial intelligence applications in public governance is an important topic in academic circles.Using the method of content analysis to systematically sort out the domestic research literature in the past 15 years,it is found that the application of artificial intelligence is reconstructing the problem field of public governance and gradually becoming a tool to improve the performance of public governance and achieve the goal of good governance,constituting the internal mechanism of the application of artificial intelligenceembedded in public governance.At the present stage,the application of artificial intelligence in public governance focuses on the supply of basic public services,urban emergency and environmental governance.However,the application of artificial intelligence still faces risks such as security,infringement,deconstruction order,impact on the rule of law system and morality and ethics.The international experience of formulating national strategic policies,establishing monitoring systems and accelerating integration into public services provides a reference for the in-depth development and risk correspondence of artificial intelligence applications in public governance in China.Based on the reality of public governance in China,the future direction of artificial intelligence application is intelligent administrative examination and approval,responsibility-sharing mechanism,public policy formulation,public ethics design and the construction of new government think tanks.

Key words: public governance, artificial intelligence, risk factors, international experience, literature review