It's not a strawman, it's an analogy. 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

It's not a strawman, it's an analogy. 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump) But nor does it mean that a fallacy has been committed