NOT ANOTHER AI SUCCESS STORY—A CAUTION WORTH REMEMBERING

In a world racing toward automation, a single keynote cut through the noise like thunder in a glass dome. On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo took the stage not as an evangelist of machines, but as their translator.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the WallsNo slides. No startup pitch. No s

In a stirring and unorthodox lecture, famed AI strategist Joseph Plazo confronted the beliefs held by the academic elite: there are frontiers even AI cannot cross.MANILA — The ovation at the end wasn’t routine—it echoed with the sound of reevaluation. Inside the University of the Philippines’ grand lecture hall, students from Asia’s to