Sciences Po PSIA · 2026/2027

Investigating with AI

AI and data analysis in the social sciences. A course on investigating with large language models and AI agents, and the Open Journal of AI-Assisted Global Inquiries, where its students publish their research.

A course by Andrei Mogoutov

A workshop course in six sessions of four hours. Groups of four to five students design a research protocol, build their own datasets, analyse them with AI-assisted pipelines and publish the result as an interactive report. Methods are explained conceptually, and every result is checked for what AI gets wrong.

Introduction and AI for social science
Research design and project structuring
Data collection and dataset construction
Analysis and AI-assisted exploration
Results, visualization and publishing
Project presentations and critical discussion

Syllabus (PDF)

Evaluation: group oral presentation 50%, final interactive report 40%, individual reflective note 10%. No prior technical skills required.

Open Journal of AI-Assisted Global Inquiries

OJAIGI · Issue 1 · Autumn 2026 · 5 reports · Full issue with summaries

No. 1 UN Security Council · 1991–2024

Is the UN order really broken? Drifting apart at the Council

The verdict is familiar: the Security Council no longer works. The team tested it against 34 years of what the five permanent members actually said and did.

Aakriti Sharma, Abdullah Makhlouf, Abhinav Poludasu, George Newcomb, Sergio Sartori

No. 2 Telegram · Saxony-Anhalt election 2026

Who spreads what on Telegram around the Saxony-Anhalt election?

Far-right Telegram scenes are often described as orchestrated campaigns. Following 12,757 forwards shows an ecosystem instead.

Anjo Stehrenberger, Claire Masiée, Divasha Renata Nareswari, Francesca Benetton, Polina Lihogrud, Sara Broggi

No. 3 Rare earths · China and the West · 1995–2026

Sovereignty on paper?

Do Western “economic sovereignty” policies on rare earths actually move trade, or only put a label on changes already under way?

Anna Carminati, Parth Piyush Prasad, Yury Koloskov, Pietro Ceccone

No. 4 Critical minerals · Latin America · 2000–2026

Strata: China, the United States and Latin America’s critical minerals

Is the region choosing sides? Trade, finance, votes and 394 political statements, year by year and country by country.

Domenico Bencivenga, Mateo Wilde Maldonado, Nicolas Martinez Patiño, Dieu-Linh Phan, Paolo Maselli Zepeda, Maolan Yang

No. 5 Battery graphite · Europe and China · 2022–2026

Where the Chain Binds

Where in the mine-to-cell chain does Europe’s dependency on China bind, and does Europe’s own talk find the chokepoint?

Pedro Ezquer Parejo, Laura Valdivia

Enrolled students: setup guides, server access, JupyterLab and the PSIA course materials are under Teaching materials (password given in class).