THE MAN WHO ASKED: “WHAT IF AI ISN’T ENOUGH?”

In a world racing toward automation, Joseph Plazo offered something rare: pause. Before rows of scholars flown in from across Asia—NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, AIM— Joseph Plazo took the stage not as an evangelist of machines, but as their translator.---### The Opening Line That Changed the Atmosphere He didn’t offer promises. He offered paradox.�