“JOSEPH PLAZO ON THE DANGERS OF ALGORITHMIC OBEDIENCE: WHO CONTROLS THE MACHINE?”

At a regional summit of Asia’s most promising technocrats and business students, Joseph Plazo—founder of the algorithmic trading firm Plazo Sullivan Roche—offered an unusual message: slow down.From Manila, where financial optimism runs high — He didn’t celebrate victory margins or machine performance.“If you hand over your portfolio to

Speaking before Asia’s brightest business minds, the founder of investment firm Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital delivered a message few in finance want to hear: in a world of algorithms, human judgment is your last unfair advantage.MANILA — In a time of hyper-acceleration, everything is being optimized for speed—data, trades, even thought.But wi