At age 17 I made friends with a coworker in their 40s. I found out he was into D&D and he invited me to sit in on a game. Now I’m 30 and I been playing with this group of now 50-60 year old dudes every Sunday since. Age gap isn’t strange but if your getting weird vibes maybe have a chat with your son about your concerns, but he is an adult in college now. He will likely have many connections of all ages.
I think it can be valuable. But not how it exists now, and definitely not with how much energy it requires. If we do get it to the level where we all have our own Jarvis that would be sick. Can’t be in the corpos hands tho…