Not really an answer, but a few modeling considerations:

• "Elites" are a difficult group to talk about - it's not uniform in capabilities or desires.  It's more specific to say "commodities traders" or "fund managers" or whatever group you are actually analyzing.
• Traders, analysists, and other market participants have used ML for a long long time in their work.  It's not clear what about "AI" you think is different enough to justify a large change.