THE MACHINE WHISPERER WHO MADE ASIA’S BRIGHTEST STUDENTS THINK TWICE

At a time when speed and data seduce even the wise, a single keynote cut through the noise like thunder in a glass dome. 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 hyp

In an era addicted to acceleration, 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.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the WallsNo