Katie Joseff is the research manager of the Digital Intelligence Lab at Institute for the Future (IFTF). She works with Sam Woolley investigating computational propaganda-- the use of automation, disinformation, and algorithms to manipulate public opinion online-- and the ethical implications of emerging technologies.

Areas of research at IFTF include: the "human consequences" of computational propaganda during the 2018 US midterm elections-- a series of eight studies on social groups and issue-publics (i.e. Jewish Americans, moderate Republicans, women's reproductive rights activists, etc.); the impacts of false information on journalism and journalists; tactics of anti-vaxxers; disinformation and nuclear war; emerging technologies and evolving propaganda techniques; technology policy in the US; psychological biases and disinformation; cognitive immunity; conspiracies; extremism; and Ethical OS (a training series looking to mitigate future ethical risks of technology).

She studied social neuroscience and international security as an undergraduate, and partisanship and disinformation as a master’s student. Her BA and MA are from Stanford University.