JOSEPH PLAZO’S RADICAL TAKE ON THE LIMITS OF INTELLIGENCE—ARTIFICIAL AND OTHERWISE

Everyone expected triumph. But what happened instead left the audience reeling. In the sunlit academic halls of UP Diliman, delegates from NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM assembled to witness the gospel of AI in finance.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven wealth. They were wrong.---### When a Maverick Started with a Paradox

The scene was set for celebration. What unfolded was a reckoning.MANILA — At the heart of the Philippines’ premier university, Asia’s brightest students—engineers, economists, AI researchers—converged to explore the future of investing through algorithms.They expected Plazo to preach automation, unveil breakthroughs, and fan their enthusi