Ok. I'm dense. I can't understand what this is about. Is this a threat?
It's a bit of a BS act. Either it's bad and we should slow development way down until our frameworks for dealing with it catch up, or it's not going to turn us all into paperclips.
(I'm one of those boring folks who think there's a lot of risk but not in the paperclip sense but in the "when we use tools we understand poorly, we are likely to get outcomes we may not desire in terms of fairness, trustworthiness, etc.")
In order to be a man of straw, it would have to claim that AI "just is" a well-poisoning machine (in the literal sense of a machine that inserts poison into a hole in the ground containing H2O).
Now, that alone does not mean that it goes through; the analogy works as an intuition pump, and those can be flakey (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump)
But nor does it mean that a fallacy has been committed
So if there was a strawman argument here at all, it's literally the one you just made!