The issue isn't what the end result could look like, but whether we'll actually get there if basic societal needs aren't met first. Prioritize things which are needed now and in the near future.
Present an argument against what? All you have done is shot down my claims with some "life isn't science fiction" garbage. You haven't posted a single comment in this thread relevant to the future implications of AI. There's nothing thought provoking about your comments. You're just being dismissive.
You are imagining super intelligent malicious AI (or AI piloted by malicious actors) with orders of magnitude more resources and reach than we have today is instantaneously implanted into today's society. That is also not relevant to the future implications of AI, because as AI evolves so will humanity. If you demand how exactly this will come about, then I will first require you to explain exactly how superintelligent AI will come about. The same answer is equally applicable and useless for both sides: "I don't know, but it definitely will."
You're also ignoring basic ideas that can defeat the apocalyptic problems you suggest. For example, "fake news" in the sense that you propose (adversaries generating synthesized videos and audio indistinguishable from reality) can be trivially defeated by cryptographic signatures. No matter how good a deep net gets, it won't beat cryptographic hardness. No chaos will ensue when major web browsers verify videos of the president signed with an official government public key, the same way they verify websites with CA's today. In fact, "fake news" today is a completely different problem, that people accept the source is legit (CNN did indeed publish an article about so and so who said X, and they did actually say X), but rather that they disagree with the meaning assigned to those facts.
You also ignore that one already has the capability to ruin a specific person's life via digital means today, without AI, just with enough dedicated time and money. Why bother with (expensive) superhuman AI targeting dissidents under an oppressive regime when instead, as most successful oppressive regimes today do, you can just lock them up or burn their house down?
In my humble opinion, if you find yourself in a situation where people don't want to present you with arguments to what you feel is logically bullet-proof reasoning, and that people are "just being dismissive," the issue is probably you, not them. Rather than bite back, the most useful approach is to reconsider your ideas. Attack them as critically as you attack the ideas of others. You may surprise yourself with what you find.
> That is also not relevant to the future implications of AI, because as AI evolves so will humanity.
So why do black hat hackers exist? Why do you have so much faith in humanity's ability and/or willingness to "evolve" alongside AI? My prediction is that AI will evolve and humans will still be the same murderous creatures they are today, only with more tools at their disposal.
> You're also ignoring basic ideas that can defeat the apocalyptic problems you suggest. For example, "fake news" in the sense that you propose (adversaries generating synthesized videos and audio indistinguishable from reality) can be trivially defeated by cryptographic signatures.
How trivial is it for a political figure who is already untrusted by the public to assert that "cryptographic signatures" are a proof of fowl play? Again, we are talking about propaganda which plays off of human perception, not truth (the "post-truth world" meme comes to mind). DKIM signatures were often cited during the 2016 election by the alt-right as "proof" that the Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks were legitimate. The assertion that the content of the emails could have still been modified without invalidating the signatures wasn't enough to convince voters who continue to push conspiracy theories surrounding them. Humans are pretty easy to manipulate. What makes you think AI is incapable of doing this?
> You also ignore that one already has the capability to ruin a specific person's life via digital means today, without AI, just with enough dedicated time and money.
I acknowledge that. My fear is that with greater capabilities, AI could be used to deceive humans easier and on a greater scale. A murderer can kill someone with a baseball bat. They can kill hundreds of people with an AR-15. There's a reason why we have regulations on the latter.
The axiom I am starting from is not to demonize AI. I am not a luddite and recognize that AI has just as much potential to be used for good. AI is just another technology. My fear speaks more to how humans will use that technology as it becomes more sophisticated.
Why do you have so much faith that autonomous superhuman AI will be such a Dalek-eqsue threat? If it's faith against faith, and you have no evidence to back up your side (while humanity adapting has millennia of evidence), there's no point in discussing it.
> Humans are pretty easy to manipulate...My fear is that with greater capabilities,...
Nobody is disagreeing with you. But this is hardly an observation of the apocalyptic proportions warned by AI risk proponents. If you're just suggesting governments regulate AI use, then you've changed your position from "stop the impending doom" to "limit the use of a dangerous tool." I have no doubt that when AI becomes good enough to be a dangerous tool, it will cause some major event and be regulated thereafter. You should start with that instead of "robots killing humans."
But if your argument is actually "stop the impending doom," then I disagree. Humans have figured out how to adapt in a world with nuclear weapons, which has shown far more risk to humanity than all but the most outlandish predictions of AI risk. You haven't presented one piece of evidence that says humans won't figure out how to adapt, or are incapable, unlikely, or unwilling to do so, whereafter humanity ceases to exist.
The issue isn't what the end result could look like, but whether we'll actually get there if basic societal needs aren't met first. Prioritize things which are needed now and in the near future.