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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.
Computer security as portrayed on TV frequently does look silly.
This is a fully general counterargument: "X as portrayed on TV frequently does look silly"
A fully general argument is not "an argument where you can substitute something for X and get something grammatical". Not all things look silly on TV with the same frequency.