from my POV, other alleged humans are p zombies and might as well be unaligned AIs. The "united states" giving me a list of commands and an AI king doing the same is no different to me phenomenologically
If the "United States" gives you a command, it may be evil. But there's still reasoning behind it. If an "AI King" gives you a command, well, it's simply guessing the next word in a sentence. In both cases you get a command, but they differ in how they were made.
You're really charitable to the "United States." There is approximately no reason behind what it does for the most part, it's just an AI made out of biological serfs.