Urbanworld, a film festival that showcases black and other minority filmmakers, just lost its financial support from the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) over AI. This year’s Urbanworld film festival is scheduled for October and enjoys some form of sponsorship from HBO, Warner Bros. Apparently, the fallout is over the 27-year-old festival announcing last month that it is launching a new programming category called UrbanworldAI. Sounds to me like the Urbanworld film festival is in good hands, is run by a mature adult who understands the lay of the AI land, which is: Embrace it or be left behind. The Writers Guild knows there is no stopping AI, so it is using what leverage it has to shake down anyone they can: Hey, that’s a nice film festival you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it.