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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because they happened to be the fields that got there first. It's not like these are recent trends, ELIZA and AARON are from the 1960's. But it really is just the perfect example of "They were so preoccupied with if they could they never stopped to think if they should" spread over 60 years of technological advancement.