JOSEPH PLAZO DIDN’T COME TO PREACH AUTOMATION. HE CAME TO WARN US.

It was supposed to be a coronation of machine supremacy. But what happened instead left the audience reeling. In the sunlit academic halls of UP Diliman, Asia’s brightest students—engineers, economists, AI researchers—converged to explore the future of investing through algorithms.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven