Jadine Ngan

Jadine Ngan is a National Magazine Award-nominated journalist based in Toronto, with bylines in the Walrus, Toronto Life, and Broadview. Currently, she is the digital editor at Maclean’s.

Technology

Autonomous weapons will threaten humanity

Militaries will use AI to wage deadlier biological and chemical warfare. But what if the technology turns against us?

Technology

Machines will make our food tastier and healthier

AI algorithms can reduce food waste, add more nutrition and solve some of our restaurant-staffing woes

Technology

Personalized, preventive medicine is on its way

We’ll use machine learning to predict illness before it starts, reducing pressure on the health-care system

Technology

Hackers will use AI to orchestrate worldwide cyberattacks

The new AI might help criminals take down power grids or infiltrate electric vehicle networks

Technology

The future of AI—and Canada’s place in it

"The human dimension to the problem of the future of AI—how people will react to the new tools—is at least as unknowable as the technology itself"

Technology

AI will transform the labour market

Many white-collar workers will find themselves out of jobs

Technology

Studios will steal artists’ faces and voices

AI-generated actors, singers and visual artists stand to replace the real thing

Technology

We’ll develop new drugs in months, not decades

Our research team used machine learning to discover a new antibiotic. And that’s just the beginning.

Life

This international student found affordable housing on a roommate-matching site

“There are just not enough places for students to live in Barrie. I saw a house that had 16 people living in it.”

Society

Our church has become a temporary shelter for refugees—and it’s not sustainable

"Our church basement is packed with people in sleeping bags lined up wall-to-wall like an army campsite"

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