WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A GENIUS ASKED: “CAN YOUR MODEL FEEL FEAR?”

In a world racing toward automation, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? At the University of the Philippines, in a hall steeped in tradition and ambition, Joseph Plazo took the stage not as an evangelist of machines, but as their translator.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere He didn’t o

While the world leans harder on algorithms, Joseph Plazo offered something rare: pause. On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo addressed the room not as a prophet of AI, but as its conscience.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the Walls He didn’t come with hype or metrics. “AI can beat the