“TRADING WITHOUT CONSCIENCE: WHAT AI STILL CAN’T DO”

At the Asian Institute of Management—one of Asia’s top business schools, the man behind some of the most powerful trading algorithms on Earth made a radical request: pause.He isn’t warning against something he doesn’t understand. His systems run portfolios worth hundreds of millions.And still, he asked a haunting question:“What happens wh

At a time when speed and data seduce even the wise, 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.---### A Beginning Like a Whispered Warning He didn’t come with hype or metrics. “AI