What's the problem with utilitarianism in AI?

Eve Poole discusses the potential ethical implications of adopting utilitarianism as the default ethic for AI.

Dr Eve Poole OBE is an academic and writer who specialises in leadership. She is the author of Leadersmithing and Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions, and was former Interim Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Third Church Estates Commissioner 2018–2021.

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The thing is, I guess it's all relative to the end goal. I mean, you can be utilitarian, and if your scope is to save all, with the condition of being moral, the you don't have that problem.