Rights don’t have to apply to the whole.

Rights are freedoms and entitlements granted to certain entities in a defined system, group, or theory. Even though rights are often granted as a bundle, they do not necessarily come all at once; i.e., some entities have rights that others do not. In recent decades, various technological advancements have been deployed and have started to function within society both at an individual and an institutional level. As their functions become common, scholars have begun to debate whether any rights should be granted to these new electronic agents [45, 59]. This discussion has become prominent after the circulation of a European Parliament draft report, where they considered creating “the status of electronic persons with specific rights and obligations”. The final report, however, rephrased the proposal after backslash from experts [2] by proposing to create “a specific legal status” for sufficiently autonomous robots [1].