The vigorous development of digital intelligence technology provides an important opportunity for the sustainable development of the spatio-temporal field, interaction mode, content supply, and governance reform of the mainstream ideological education of college students. At the same time, the personalized algorithm recommendation, entertaining narrative mode, group survival situation, and digital virtual identity brought about by digital intelligence technology have diluted the leading force of mainstream ideological education of college students, discrete the dominant force, weakened the communication power, and dissolved the binding force. Therefore, this paper proposes the innovative development path of mainstream ideological education for college students from the perspectives of value guidance, communication optimization, literacy improvement, and legal norms on how to maximize the advantages of digital intelligence technology.