This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International workshop on AI for Research, AI4Research 2024, and 4th International workshop on Democracy and AI, DemocrAI 2024, held in conjunction with the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024, in Jeju, South Korea, in August 2024. The 9 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The AI4Research 2024 proceedings focus on how recent developments in AI are influencing research across various fields in science. The DemocrAI 2024 proceedings focus on the use of AI-based systems in Democracy, especially Democratic online platforms, formal theories of collective decision-making, and advanced methodologies for discourse analysis.