THE MACHINE WHISPERER WHO MADE ASIA’S BRIGHTEST STUDENTS THINK TWICE

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 come with hype or metrics. “AI can beat the market.

Everyone expected triumph. What unfolded was a reckoning. At the University of the Philippines' famed lecture theater, students from across Asia’s elite universities gathered to explore the future of investing through algorithms.They expected Plazo to preach automation, unveil breakthroughs, and fan their enthusiasm. They were wrong.---### The