THE DAY THE MACHINES WERE HUMBLED IN ASIA’S CAPITAL OF THOUGHT

Everyone expected triumph. But what happened instead left the audience reeling. In the sunlit academic halls of UP Diliman, delegates from NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM assembled to witness the gospel of AI in finance.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven wealth. They were wrong.---### When a Maverick Started with a Paradox

At the Asian Institute of Management—one of Asia’s top business schools, Joseph Plazo stepped to the podium—not to celebrate the rise of AI, but to interrogate it.He isn’t warning against something he doesn’t understand. He’s one of its architects.And still, he asked a haunting question:“If a machine gets it wrong, who raises their ha