“JOSEPH PLAZO: ALGORITHMS ARE POWERFUL, BUT NOT PRINCIPLED”

At a gathering of some of the region’s top young economic thinkers, AI fund pioneer Joseph Plazo, shared a powerful reminder: in a world increasingly shaped by machines, values cannot be outsourced.PHILIPPINES — Within one of Manila’s top academic venues, what began as a discussion on AI became a deeper debate on accountability.Plazo, the fou

In an era addicted to acceleration, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? 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 metric