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  Title: US-Canada agree to turn back asylum seekers at border Source: By Nadine Yousif & Madeline Halpert, BBC News, Ottawa and New York Date: March 24, 2023 URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047438 My critical questions After rereading this article, I have found myself have some questions to the article. Who is the author? Well, there aer two authors doing this article. One is Nadine Yousif, a journalist from Canada and US BBC. Her passions include social equity, human-interest reporting and data journalism.  constantly impressed by the power of words and visuals to open minds and hearts, and to ultimately affect change. And the another author is Madaline Halpert a journalist from  N orth America news for the BBC. She covers a wild rage topics include  elections, politics, government, business and health. Since the article has two authors, I think it is really good in for reader to be sure that the article may not include any biases from one pe...

Title: US-Canada agree to turn back asylum seekers at border Source: By Nadine Yousif & Madeline Halpert, BBC News, Ottawa and New York Date: March 24, 2023 URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047438 Summary: Since there has been a large number of migrants made unsanctioned crossings of the US-Canada border (40.000 crossed into Canada in 2023). Many of them are from Latin American countries like Venezuela and Colombia, as far away as Haiti and Afghanistan. Therefore, the US and Canadian authorities (the US president and the prime minister of Canada) have made an agreement to reject and stop the flow of unofficial border crossing from asylum seekers. From now on, migrants caught crossing anywhere along The US-Canada border now can be rejected and sent back to where they come from. This new act can close a loophole from the original act in 2004 (the Safe Third Country Act), which cannot allow either nation to turn migrants away at unofficial crossing points. However, man...

Title: Why you're about to see ChatGPT in more of your apps Source: By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Date: March 01, 2023 URL: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/01/tech/chatgpt-api/index.html Summary: The article point s out why we will see ChatGPT appears more in our apps. ChatGPT has stunned many users with its tool in generating data impressively and OpenAI (ChatGPT producer) is opening up the way for the viral AI chatbot to be integrated into a number of apps and services. Instacart, Snap and tutor app Quizlet are applying  ChatGPT’s application programming interface, or API, a  tool’s chat functionality and answers into their platforms. such as generating recommendations, and helping users make plans on Snapchat. For Quizlet, they are introducing a chatbot that can ask questions based on study materials for students to prepare for their exams. Shopping apps are  launching chatbots that could help inform customers’ shopping decisions such as how can I make health...

Title: Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not Source: The Chronicle Review by Tom Bartlett Date: January 05, 2017 URL: Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not (chronicle.com) Summary: The article mainly focuses on questioning whether or not we can really measure our unconscious or implicit biases via the IAT (Implicit Association Test, developed and produced by Harvard in 1998). As well as mentioning the controversial arguments among scholars along with their claims, supporting research and evidence regarding the IAT. Arguing the connection between unconscious bias and biased behavior (prejudice and discrimination). Also arguing on the accuracy and solidity of the IAT, some argue that it is not suitable for predicting individual biases, requiring some more modification. However, The article mentions that the IAT contains some values, it has engaged millions of people in conversation about the science of bias and it is critical to be mindful of them if we want to avoid pr...