With the rapid development of modern science,technology and medicine,the application of artificial intelli-gence(AI)to medicine has become a hot topic of research at home and abroad.In the field of assisted reproduction,the direction of AI technology research includes using AI to predict the fertility of patients,adopting individualized solutions to solve fertility problems,intelligently identifying images of embryos,and selecting embryos with the highest potential for development.In clini-cal work,embryo quality is one of the important factors for predicting the success of in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer(IVF-ET).Therefore,evaluating the quality of embryos and selecting those with the best potential for development for transfer is a crit-ical step in the work of assisted reproduction laboratories.Currently,the use of AI for intelligent embryo image recognition is not perfect,and some controversy is still existent.This paper not only reviews the latest application of AI in embryo image recogni-tion,but also explores the current application status,existing problems and development direction of AI in embryo image recog-nition.