Maybe it's because by the end of my life 80+ (probably) I won't be around to face the consequences of humanity's development of robots, but will have been there only long enough to benefit from it before humans lose the plot
I wouldn't be so sure. The problem with the human mind is that it generally tends to extrapolate linearly. We look at the progress that came before and expect the same rate of change to continue.
But human progress is not progressing linearly, it's progressing exponentially. As we gain more technology and more tools, we are able to progress faster and faster than ever before.
I always like to remind everyone that ChatGPT only came out in November 2022. It isn't even 3 years old yet.
And in that time short period of time, it's gone from something that was widely mocked for the nonsense it spat out - to now being at a point where it can perform many tasks better than humans can.
I always remember at school a teacher doing a presentation on the pace of change. He put up a diagram like this showing the time it took an invention to reach 50 million users.
I can't remember the number, but ChatGPT broke the record in a few days.
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