“…Even when cafés moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic, some demographic trends, like the dominance of middle-aged attendees, persisted [Pacini, Belmonte & Bagnoli, 2020]. One scientist, who was both a presenter and an organizer of a 2011 Artificial Intelligence café in England, captured the tension between broadening knowledge and building stable audiences often at play in caf é events.…”