It does feel like more of a sociological than a philosophical overlap, aside maybe from consequentialism. The best argument for GiveDirectly and mosquito nets over structural change is that nobody honestly knows how to move the likelihood of the latter with a few thousand dollars, so you can reasonably choose to definitely do something that will at least really help someone over trying to fix an alleged root cause but most likely having no effect at all. But then our understanding of how to invest in AI alignment is even worse than our understanding of how to invest in reducing root causes of violence and inequality.