"alignment" is the computer version for (philosophical not medical) "consciousness", a totally subjective, immeasurable concept.

I think you have a misunderstanding of the term alignment. Really, you could replace "aligned" with "working" and "misaligned" with "broken".

A washing machine has one goal, to wash your clothes. A washing machine that does not wash your clothes is broken.

An AI system has some goal. A target acquisition AI system might be tasked with picking out enemies and friendlies from a camera feed. A system that does so reliably is working (aligned) a system that doesn't is broken (misaligned). There's no moral or philosophical angle necessary if your goal doesn't already include that. Aligned doesn't mean good and misaligned doesn't mean evil.

The problem comes when your goal includes moral, ethical and philosophical judgements.