For hundreds of millions of years the DNA has been dealing with its own alignment problem. It needed the organisms it created to survive, thrive, and reproduce.

We often take for granted that organisms want to do these things. However, in reality it probably took many, many failures to get anywhere near the success rate you see in the natural world today.

A great blog about this:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tQxLfkvFGWBhJ2KzR/biomimetic-alignment-alignment-between-animal-genes-and