Amid rising AI euphoria, one voice stood apart, Joseph Plazo unsettled a roomful of future market leaders with a message few in Silicon Valley are willing to confront: AI still can’t grasp the full arc of human judgement.**MANILA —** On a oppressive Thursday morning in the wood-paneled halls of the Asian Institute of Management, Plazo opted for… Read More

In a lecture that defied tech evangelism, Joseph Plazo offered a sober warning to a roomful of brilliant young minds with a message few in Silicon Valley are willing to confront: AI still can’t grasp the full arc of human judgement.**MANILA —** On a oppressive Thursday morning in the wood-paneled halls of the Asian Institute of Management, Plaz… Read More

In a lecture that defied tech evangelism, Joseph Plazo challenged a roomful of Asia’s top students with a message few in the tech elite are willing to confront: Speed and scale are not substitutes for discernment.**MANILA —** On a thick Thursday morning in the wood-paneled halls of the AIM campus, Plazo eschewed celebration. His audience—a cu… Read More

The scene was set for celebration. What unfolded was a reckoning. In the sunlit academic halls of UP Diliman, delegates from NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM assembled to explore the future of investing through algorithms.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven wealth. They were wrong.---### When a Maverick Started with a Paradox… Read More

The mood was electric, the room expectant. Inside the intellectual sanctum of the University of the Philippines, students who topped their fields in AI, economics, and data science were eager to witness Joseph Plazo unleash the future.But that’s not what they got.---### The Codebreaker Who Broke the Narrative Plazo didn’t bring slides. He di… Read More