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There is a field that thinks hard about risks from unintelligent computers (computer security) that tackles very difficult problems that sometimes get written about in popular fiction (Neil Stephenson, etc.) and manages to not look silly.
I think to the extent that (U)FAI research is even a "real area," it would be closest in mindset to computer security.
Not quite. Computer security deals with managing risks coming from people, it's just that the universe where it has to manage risks is a weird superposition of the physical world (see hardware or physical-access attacks), the social world (see social engineering attacks), and the cyberworld (see the usual 'sploit attacks).