CasualPreppersPdcast :
For anyone wondering how we reached the rankings: we scored each state across several factors that would matter in a hypothetical AI/machine takeover:
• Population density: Lower density generally scored better. Fewer people means fewer surveillance systems, connected devices, vehicles, infrastructure choke points, and potential competition for resources.
• Terrain & isolation: Mountains, forests, rugged terrain, large rural areas, and limited road access scored well because they make physical movement, surveillance, and autonomous-machine operations more difficult.
• Technology/infrastructure dependence: States with large tech sectors, data centers, highly connected infrastructure, major electrical/communications hubs, and heavily automated urban areas were considered higher risk.
• Food & water: Agricultural capacity, freshwater availability, rainfall, growing conditions, hunting/fishing opportunities, and the ability to support people locally without a functioning national supply chain improved a state’s score.
• Energy & grid vulnerability: We considered how dependent populations are on continuously functioning electrical, fuel, water-treatment, transportation, and communications systems.
• Strategic/industrial significance: Major military installations, ports, logistics corridors, manufacturing centers, data infrastructure, and other strategically important targets increased the hypothetical likelihood of machine activity.
The categories were weighted into an overall survivability score and then states were ranked relative to one another.
And obviously there is one final variable that cannot be quantified: how badly the robots personally hate your state. 😂
This is a preparedness thought experiment, not an actual predictive model.
2026-09-14 17:45:38