JOSEPH PLAZO DIDN’T COME TO PREACH AUTOMATION. HE CAME TO WARN US.

It was supposed to be a coronation of machine supremacy. Instead, it became a confrontation.MANILA — At the heart of the Philippines’ premier university, Asia’s brightest students—engineers, economists, AI researchers—converged to see the future of trading laid bare by machines.They expected Plazo to reaffirm their belief that AI would ru

Everyone expected triumph. Instead, it became a confrontation. At the University of the Philippines' famed lecture theater, students from across Asia’s elite universities gathered to see the future of trading laid bare by machines.They expected Plazo to reaffirm their belief that AI would rule the markets. Instead, they got silence, contradictio