JOSEPH PLAZO’S QUESTION THAT ECHOED BEYOND THE CODE

While the world leans harder on algorithms, Joseph Plazo offered something rare: pause. At the University of the Philippines, in a hall steeped in tradition and ambition, Joseph Plazo took the stage not as an evangelist of machines, but as their translator.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere No slides. No startup pitch. No swagg

At a summit of the region’s tech elite, Joseph Plazo—founder of the AI-led fund Plazo Sullivan Roche—delivered a speech that broke the rhythm of the room.Inside a packed auditorium at the Asian Institute of Management, Plazo, best known for building AI that rarely loses, stepped back from the code.“If you hand your portfolio to a machine,�