“AUTOMATED FINANCE AND THE ETHICS IT LEAVES BEHIND”

At a gathering of bright young minds from the region’s top universities, Joseph Plazo—AI investor and founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital—delivered not predictions, but a pointed pause.As the Philippines builds its reputation as a technology hub — the atmosphere inside AIM’s lecture hall was not electric, but charged—with thought.Pl

The scene was set for celebration. What unfolded was a reckoning. At the University of the Philippines' famed lecture theater, students from across Asia’s elite universities gathered to witness the gospel of AI in finance.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven wealth. Instead, they got silence, contradiction, and truth.--