Hey looks like you can make ae from running an oracle and feeding it data for smart contracts to draw from. This is from the whitepaper:

"æternity is the only blockchain where users can make money by creating oracles for different data feeds and we expect a thriving oracle ecosystem to develop quickly. In the future even AIs might be able to create oracles for profit."


https://github.com/aeternity/aeternity-reimagined/blob/master/oracles.md