“JOSEPH PLAZO: ALGORITHMS ARE POWERFUL, BUT NOT PRINCIPLED”

At a gathering of some of the region’s top young economic thinkers, Joseph Plazo, issued a timely warning: in a world increasingly shaped by machines, values cannot be outsourced.PHILIPPINES — Inside the lecture hall of a leading business school, the conversation turned not to technology, but to ethics.Plazo, the founder of the high-performing

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.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere No slides. No startup pitch. No swagge