The article addresses the problem of possible rights for superintelligent systems by using a distinction between moral dimension and rational dimension in human beings and proposing to endow artificial systems only with rational dimension.
Allen, Colin, Wallach, Wendell, Moral machines: contradiction in terms or abdication of human responsibility?, in: Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics, Lin P., Abney K., Bekey G. A. (eds.), Cambridge: The MIT Press 2012, 55-68.