NOT ANOTHER AI SUCCESS STORY—A CAUTION WORTH REMEMBERING

While the world leans harder on algorithms, 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 hype or metr

In a rare keynote that blended technical acumen with philosophical depth, famed AI strategist Joseph Plazo confronted the beliefs held by the academic elite: the future still belongs to humans who can think.MANILA — The ovation at the end wasn’t routine—it reflected a deep, perhaps uneasy, resonance. At the packed University of the Philip