One of the main reasons for youth being preferred over age in modern societies has to do with the fact that the youth are often more familiar with the latest tools than older people

As a tool-making species, man bestows enormous importance to tools & hence to youth that can use them well (especially where new tools are being created rapidly, such as in the digital age)

As AI + Robotics rolls on, the species will be faced with a new reality. Tool creation and tool-usage will move away from human hands to “artificial” hands

Possibly pointing to a fundamental reversal of the advantage that youth held for the species

The old might regain their pre-eminent place in society - for their widsom