THE THOUGHT THAT FROZE A THOUSAND MINDS

In a world racing toward automation, Joseph Plazo offered something rare: pause. Before rows of scholars flown in from across Asia—NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, AIM— Joseph Plazo addressed the room not as a prophet of AI, but as its conscience.---### A Beginning Like a Whispered Warning He didn’t come with hype or metrics. “AI can beat the market.

During a speech delivered at one of Southeast Asia’s top business schools, Joseph Plazo—the founder of AI trading firm Plazo Sullivan Roche— argued that automation may have outpaced accountability.He offered a sober reminder: faster trades are not always wiser ones.“If you allow a machine to manage your portfolio,” he said, “ensure it r