“MACHINES CAN WIN TRADES. BUT ONLY PEOPLE WIN TRUST.”

Speaking to a room filled with the next generation of quant geniuses, Joseph Plazo didn’t pitch the next great bot—he questioned what we’ve lost already.Inside a packed auditorium at the Asian Institute of Management, Plazo, best known for building AI that rarely loses, stepped back from the code.“If you hand your portfolio to a machine,”

It began like a celebration. 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 instead, they were handed a reality few had expected.---### The Opening Shot Was a Whisper of Doubt Plazo didn’t bring slides. H