WHEN MACHINES STOPPED THE APPLAUSE

In a world racing toward automation, a single keynote cut through the noise like thunder in a glass dome. On a humid morning in Manila’s premier lecture theatre, Joseph Plazo addressed the room not as a prophet of AI, but as its conscience.---### His First Sentence Wasn’t Loud, But It Shook the WallsNo slides. No startup pitch. No swagger.

During a keynote at the Asian Institute of Management, Joseph Plazo, shared a powerful reminder: in a world increasingly shaped by machines, ethical decision-making must not be lost.MANILA — Within one of Manila’s top academic venues, what began as a discussion on AI became a deeper debate on accountability.Plazo, the founder of his namesake AI