WHEN JUDGMENT TOOK THE STAGE IN A WORLD OBSESSED WITH CODE THE AI PROPHET WHO ASKED US TO PAUSE JOSEPH PLAZO’S HARD RESET ON THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS

It began like a celebration. Within UP’s hallowed halls in Manila, delegates from institutions like NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM expected another chapter in AI’s victory lap.But that’s not what they got.---### A Maverick’s First Word Felt Like a Warning BellPlazo didn’t bring slides. There were no metrics to gawk at. No buzzwords to tweet