Brian Tarran is senior research and statistics editor within the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit, a member of the CoSTAR Foresight Lab, and co-author (with Angus Finney) of the forthcoming CoSTAR Foresight Lab report ‘AI in the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forward’. He is the former head of data science platform at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), founding editor of Real World Data Science, and former editor of Significance Magazine, a joint publication of the RSS, the American Statistical Association and the Statistical Society of Australia. Prior to joining the RSS, he was editor of Research-Live.com and founding editor of Impact magazine, both published by the Market Research Society.