WHAT JOSEPH PLAZO SAID THAT MADE FUTURE LEADERS STOP CHEERING

They came with reverence in their eyes and code on their minds. Inside the intellectual sanctum of the University of the Philippines, students who topped their fields in AI, economics, and data science expected another chapter in AI’s victory lap.But what they received hit harder than any forecast.---### A Maverick’s First Word Felt Like a Wa

At a time when AI is deified, one man stood before the next generation of leaders and said: “It’s not that simple.” Plazo, whose neural nets boast win rates that border on the mythical, walked into a grand hall at the University of the Philippines —not to celebrate AI, but to show its cracks.---### A Lecture That Felt Like a Confession No