  This paper describes current progress on developing an ethical architecture
for robots that are designed to follow human ethical decision-making processes.
We surveyed both regular adults (folks) and ethics experts (experts) on what
they consider to be ethical behavior in two specific scenarios: pill-sorting
with an older adult and game playing with a child. A key goal of the surveys is
to better understand human ethical decision-making. In the first survey, folk
responses were based on the subject's ethical choices ("folk morality"); in the
second survey, expert responses were based on the expert's application of
different formal ethical frameworks to each scenario. We observed that most of
the formal ethical frameworks we included in the survey (Utilitarianism,
Kantian Ethics, Ethics of Care and Virtue Ethics) and "folk morality" were
conservative toward deception in the high-risk task with an older adult when
both the adult and the child had significant performance deficiencies.
