Does Artificial Intelligence Technology Induce Industry Reverse Gradient Transfer

Literature focuses the effect of artificial intelligence technology on the labor and employment, while generally neglecting to investigate the impact on industrial transformation and industrial transfer. To this end, this article empirically tests the impact of artificial intelligence technology development on industrial transfer based on the artificial intelligence patent and industrial transfer index. The research conclusions show that the development of artificial intelligence technology is helpful to induce industry return; from the perspective of the path of action, the labor substitution effect, technology spillover effect and economic agglomeration effect of artificial intelligence technology are one important cause of inducing industry backflow. There is obvious industry heterogeneity in the impact of artificial intelligence technology, that is, it can significantly increase the inflow of labor-intensive and technology-intensive industries, but the impact on capital-intensive industries is not obvious. At the same time, the effect of artificial intelligence technology on industrial transfer is subject to the constraints of the integration of primary and secondary industries and the intelligent environment. The paper provides important theoretical support and policy enlightenment for attracting industry inflows.