At a summit of Asia’s most promising minds, the founder of the AI-driven investment house Plazo Sullivan Roche shared a hard-hitting reality the finance world rarely acknowledges: in a world of algorithms, human judgment is your last unfair advantage.MANILA — In a time of hyper-acceleration, everything is being optimized for speed—data, trade
In a world racing toward automation, Joseph Plazo offered something rare: pause. Before rows of scholars flown in from across Asia—NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, AIM— Joseph Plazo addressed the room not as a prophet of AI, but as its conscience.---### A Beginning Like a Whispered Warning He didn’t offer promises. He offered paradox.“AI can beat the
At a time when speed and data seduce even the wise, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? At the University of the Philippines, in a hall steeped in tradition and ambition, Joseph Plazo spoke not to impress, but to interrupt.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere He didn’t offer promises. He o
At a summit of Asia’s top minds, the founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche dropped a truth bomb few fund managers dare to voice: what machines can't trade is your moral compass.MANILA — The world is obsessed with speed. Speed of data. Speed of decisions. Speed of return.Yet inside AIM’s intimate, wood-toned auditorium last Thursday, Joseph Plazo in
At a time when speed and data seduce even the wise, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? 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.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Sho