思想政治理论课（简称“思政课”）是落实立德树人根本任务的关键课程，是高校实施思想政治教育的主阵地和主渠道。在教育信息化和智能化发展的大背景下，很多高校积极探索运用现代信息技术建设智慧思政课堂，寻求与新媒体新技术高度融合，增强思政课的时代感和感染力。本论文在总结人工智能的基本内涵、与教育教学相关的研究、应用和前景的基础上，提出高校思政课教学融合前沿科技的必要性，梳理人工智能融入高校思政课教学的已有形态，并从不同角度探索高校思政课智能化教学方案，进而分析人工智能时代对思政课教学产生的影响和应对措施。首先，基于雨课堂平台的智慧教学教学方案成为当代高校思政课教学改革方向，并在调查中得到大学生的普遍接受和认可。雨课堂的实时授课、记录学习过程、教学互动等功能，能为思政课教师准确评价学生提供数据化和智能化支持，是运用数据思维精准施教的体现。其次，虚拟仿真实验教学是当代高校思政课教学创新的又一新样态，在丰富教育手段、拓展教学空间、提高课程感染力方面具有独特优势。它以虚拟现实、人工智能技术为主要实现手段，能够提供沉浸式、多场景互动体验。如何构建真正符合思政学科特点、满足高校育人需要的虚拟仿真实验课同样是一门学问。最后，本文在对思政课雨课堂智慧教学和虚拟仿真实验课程建设进行具体分析的基础上，进一步从思想政治教育主体、客体、介体、环境等要素展开，对人工智能融入高校思想政治理论课的影响进行了分析阐述，提出思政课教师要不断创新教学理念，变革教学方式，提升教学能力，推进高校思政课教学育人实践的创新发展。本文以清华大学“思想道德与法治”课程教学改革实践为案例，对于人工智能融入思政课教学进行了具体深入的调查研究和案例分析，阐述了以人工智能为代表的现代信息技术手段融入高校思政课教学的一些规律性认识和前瞻性见解，提出思政课建设在利用现代信息技术创新教学方法的同时要兼顾技术融合的合理性和有效性，不断提升思政课教学育人的亲和力和感染力。

Ideological and political theory courses are the key courses to implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, which are also the main channel and position of ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Under the background of the continuous and in-depth development of educational informatization in China, it is the inexorable requirement of the development of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities to actively explore the innovative teaching modes and enhance the effect of education adopting modern information technology represented by artificial intelligence in the new era.On the basis of combing and summarizing the concept and connotation of artificial intelligence and its development and application practice in the field of education in China，this paper demonstrates the urgency and necessity of integrating cutting-edge information technology into ideological and political courses teaching in colleges and universities. Based on the current practical application status of artificial intelligence in ideological and political courses teaching in colleges and universities, this paper takes the creation of the intelligent teaching mode based on rain classroom platform and the construction of virtual simulation experiment course as the research objects. And it makes an exploratory research on the innovative modes of integrating artificial intelligence into ideological and political courses teaching in colleges and universities, relying on the cases of ideological and political courses teaching innovation in Tsinghua University.As a smart teaching tool, the intelligent attributes of rain classroom injects vitality into different links of ideological and political teaching process, promote precise teaching and improve teaching effect. This paper analyzes the mixed teaching of the course of Value, Morality and Rule of Law in Tsinghua University based on rain classroom in detail. It puts forward that the wisdom teaching of ideological and political courses based on rain classroom has a series of features including presenting study trends explicitly, contacting the relevance of learning behaviors, depicting objects accurately, classifying guidance for different topics, evaluating academic records formatively. The teaching mode improves students’ participation in teaching activities as well as strengthen the interaction between teachers and students so that a formative evaluation system is constructed. This paper also puts forward some suggestions for the problems and deficiencies in the teaching process via rain classroom.Based on artificial intelligence and virtual reality, virtual simulation experiment teaching has become a new form for teaching innovation of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities, which has unique advantages in enriching educational scenes, expanding teaching space and improving the appeal of the curriculum in particular. This paper deeply investigates the current situation of virtual simulation experiment teaching projects construction of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities, and sums up three modes of scene creation both in line with the characteristics of ideological and political discipline and meeting the needs of college education. The paper designs and elaborates the virtual simulation experiment project that takes "Nan Rendong Spirit" as the theme, and explores the methods of designing and implemeting virtual simulation experiment teaching of ideological and political courses.Finally, focusing on the trend and influence of integrating artificial intelligence into the teaching practice of ideological and political courses, this paper discriminates not only the changes of factors such as subject, object, mediator, environment of ideological and political education but also the challenges in teaching process, and proposes that ideological and political teachers should constantly innovate teaching ideas, change teaching methods and improve teaching ability to enhance the sense of the times and appeal of ideological and political courses. Meanwhile, it is proposed that teachers should take into account the rationality and effectiveness of technology integration in the process of pursuing innovation to promote the healthy and orderly development of practice of ideological and political education in colleges and universities.