{"id":126,"date":"2025-10-29T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:25:11","slug":"aim4d-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/knowledge-network\/aim4d-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"AIM4D Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI-driven Modeling &amp; Forecasting for Democratic Development and Decline (AIM4D)<\/strong><br><strong>International Conference at the University of Notre Dame<\/strong><br><strong>October 15-17, 2026<\/strong><br><strong>Conveners: <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalscience.nd.edu\/people\/michael-coppedge\/\">Michael Coppedge<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lucyinstitute.nd.edu\/people\/the-lucy-family-core-team\/dmitry-zaytsev\/\">Dmitry Zaytsev<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AIM4D Conference explores the fundamental dynamics of democratic development and decline, asking how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to model, forecast, and explain these processes across political systems and historical contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By bringing together scholars from political science, computational social science, and data science, the conference aims to advance a rigorous interdisciplinary dialogue on the mechanisms, trajectories, and early indicators of democratic and authoritarian change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will focus on developing and comparing interpretable AI-driven models that integrate theoretical insight with empirical data to better understand the causal patterns and temporal dynamics underlying democratic resilience, transformation, and backsliding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/knowledge-network\/aim4d-conference\/call-for-papers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"642\" data-id=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2025\/12\/Call-for-papers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2025\/12\/Call-for-papers.png 411w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2025\/12\/Call-for-papers-192x300.png 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/knowledge-network\/aim4d-conference\/important-dates\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2025\/12\/Important-dates.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2025\/12\/Important-dates.png 410w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2025\/12\/Important-dates-192x300.png 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/knowledge-network\/aim4d-conference\/tentative-agenda-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1093\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/Program-657x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/Program-657x1024.png 657w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/Program-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/Program-768x1196.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/Program.png 1005w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For questions regarding the conference, please contact: <br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">mcoppedg@nd.edu<\/span><\/strong> (Dr. Michael Coppedge) and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">dzaytsev@nd.edu<\/span><\/strong> (Dr. Dmitry Zaytsev)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kellogg.nd.edu\/conference-coppedge-ai-driven-modeling\">Register for the Public Panels Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kellogg.nd.edu\/conference-coppedge-ai-driven-modeling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/AIM4D_under_2MB-1024x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/AIM4D_under_2MB-1024x426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/AIM4D_under_2MB-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/AIM4D_under_2MB-767x319.jpg 767w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/AIM4D_under_2MB-1536x639.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/aim3d\/files\/2026\/09\/AIM4D_under_2MB.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" 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