“MACHINES CAN WIN TRADES. BUT ONLY PEOPLE WIN TRUST.”

At a summit of Asia’s brightest young economists, Joseph Plazo didn’t pitch the next great bot—he questioned what we’ve lost already.MANILA — Plazo, best known for building AI that rarely loses, did something few expected: he urged a slowdown.“Trading can be delegated. Integrity cannot.”???? **The Man Who Built the Machine—and Still

In an era addicted to acceleration, Joseph Plazo offered something rare: pause. On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo addressed the room not as a prophet of AI, but as its conscience.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the Walls He didn’t come with hype or metrics. “AI can beat the market.