What do you mean by "misalignment"? In a regime with autonomous AI agents, I usually understand "misalignment" to mean "has different values from some other agent". In this frame, you can be misaligned with some people but not others. If an AI is aligned with North Korea, then it's not really "misaligned" in the abstract—it's just aligned with someone who we don't want it to be aligned with. Likewise, if OpenAI develops AI that's aligned with the United States, but unaligned with North Korea, this mostly just seems like the same problem but in reverse.

In general, conflicts don't really seem well-described as issues of "misalignment". Sure, in the absence of all misalignment, wars would probably not occur (though they may still happen due to misunderstandings and empirical disagreements). But for the most part, wars seem better described as arising from a breakdown of institutions that are normally tasked with keeping the peace. You can have a system of lawful yet mutually-misaligned agents who keep the peace, just as you can have an anarchic system with mutually-misaligned agents in a state of constant war. Misalignment just (mostly) doesn't seem to be the thing causing the issue here.

You could also solve or mitigate the problem by resolving all human conflicts (so the AI doesn't have a group to ally with)

Note that I'm not saying

• AIs will aid in existing human conflicts, picking sides along the ordinary lines we see today

I am saying:

• AIs will likely have conflicts amongst themselves, just as humans have conflicts amongst themselves, and future conflicts (when considering all of society) don't seem particularly likely to be AI vs. human, as opposed to AI vs AI (with humans split between these groups).