AI IS SMART—BUT IT’S STILL NOT HUMAN

One man dared to cool the AI fever, investment technologist Joseph Plazo challenged a roomful of Asia’s top students with a message few in the tech elite are willing to confront: Artificial intelligence can do many things—but it still can’t understand consequence.**MANILA —** On a humid Thursday morning in the wood-paneled halls of the Asia

Inside the Asian Institute of Management, Joseph Plazo—founder of the algorithmic trading firm Plazo Sullivan Roche—broke the rhythm of praise for AI with a moment of reckoning.From Manila, where financial optimism runs high — He didn’t celebrate victory margins or machine performance.“If you hand over your portfolio to a machine,” he s