NOT ANOTHER AI SUCCESS STORY—A CAUTION WORTH REMEMBERING

In a world racing toward automation, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo took the stage not as an evangelist of machines, but as their translator.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere No slides. No startup pitch. No swagge

At a time when speed and data seduce even the wise, one voice dared to ask: what gets lost when we stop thinking for ourselves? On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo took the stage not as an evangelist of machines, but as their translator.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere No slides. No startup p