NOT ANOTHER AI SUCCESS STORY—A CAUTION WORTH REMEMBERING

In a world racing toward automation, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? 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

While the world leans harder on algorithms, 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 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 met