I contest that. What war you have in mind here? Russian invasion of Ukraine? The two people are about as aligned as you could possibly get - they're neighboring societies with so much shared history that they're approximately the same people. They've even shared a common language until recently. This is not a war between people alien to each other - this is a war between nation states.

Note: I'm explicitly excluding political views and national/cultural identity from alignment, because those are transient, and/or group-level phenomena. By human-to-human alignment, I'm talking about empathy, about sense of right and wrong, conscience, patterns of thinking, all the qualities that let us understand each other and emphasize with each other (if we care to try). Concepts like fear, love, fairness; contexts in which they're triggered. The basics. Those are all robust, hardwired in biology or by the intersection of our biology, shared environment and game theory.

The way I would rank it, if 25 = alignment coordinate of an average American, then average Ukrainian and average Russian would all be within 25 +/- 0.05. Maybe an average Sentinelese would be +/- 0.5 of that. Whereas I'd expect an AI we create now to land anywhere between -20 and +40, on the scale of -100 to 100. I'm pulling the numbers out of my butt, they're just to communicate the relative magnitudes across.

> Something trained on the totality of human knowledge will act like a human.

Maybe, but that would have to include much more than the limited modalities we're feeding AI models now.

> And if it somehow doesn’t, it won’t be tolerated. (I’d personally tolerate it, but it’s obvious that the world won’t stand for that.)

Sure, but the issue here is to figure out how to make an aligned AI before we make an AI that's powerful enough to challenge us.