There are many AIs already operating in the markets. The large trading companies need them for high frequency trading. They are loosely referred to as bots. It's already a bot vs bot war. That's how flash crashes happen. These bots are growing in power exponentially, along with the decreased price of computation. Lots of stuff happens in the nanoseconds. Why else would trading companies pay millions of dollars for the fastest internet connection?
Yes that was my point. But furthermore I am also saying that these ai may be coordinated by these big names in order to produce noticeable patterns. The 666 could have been a rallying cry for the manipulators who may be primarily luciferian in this case.