“THE MACHINES ARE TRADING. BUT WHO’S STILL THINKING?”

At a gathering of Asia’s next generation of financiers and technologists, Joseph Plazo—AI investor and founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital—offered not hype, but hesitation.MANILA — the atmosphere inside AIM’s lecture hall was not electric, but charged—with thought.Plazo, a man whose trading systems are trusted by institutional inves

At a time when speed and data seduce even the wise, a single keynote cut through the noise like thunder in a glass dome. 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 hyp