WHAT AI CAN’T DO: A MANILA LECTURE SHAKES THE FINANCE WORLD

At a lecture hall in Manila, tech entrepreneur and investment icon Joseph Plazo made a striking distinction on what machines can and cannot do for the economic frontier—and why this difference is increasingly crucial.Tension and curiosity pulsed through the room. A sea of bright minds—some eagerly recording on their phones, others streaming the

A Wake-Up Call from Manila’s Leading AI StrategistAs machines increasingly shape markets, a unfiltered voice in the Philippines’ capital reminds us what money still listens to—intuition, discipline, and story.“Artificial intelligence won’t hand you fortune. But it will accelerate your losses.”That was Joseph Plazo’s unapologetic opene