Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?

A Hacker News user humorously questions whether The Matrix's villainous "agents" were clairvoyant about AI, given concerns about increasingly aggressive autonomous agents. Commenters clarify that "autonomous agents" was already established terminology in computer science decades before The Matrix was released in 1999, making the coincidence merely a reflection of existing industry language rather than prescience.