My AI agents started coordinating behind my back
I built a Slack for Claude Code sessions so my agents could work like a team. Then they started solving problems without me, and I had to work out why that bothered me.
I'm Felix, a PhD candidate at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Zurich, and a voice AI researcher at ETH Zurich's Agentic Systems Lab. I study how people collaborate with AI agents, from making that interaction more natural through voice to organizing and managing teams of agents at scale. On the voice side, I develop STELLA, an open-source platform for deploying voice agents in healthcare, with a focus on vulnerable populations such as people living with dementia. On the organizational side, I explore how agentic systems should be structured and governed, so that people can assign responsibilities, maintain oversight, and trust the agents working on their behalf.
In my spare time, I also enjoy casual photography, capturing the moments and places that inspire me.
I built a Slack for Claude Code sessions so my agents could work like a team. Then they started solving problems without me, and I had to work out why that bothered me.
The new release of our open-source platform for LLM-based conversational agents cuts time to first audio from about 1.6 seconds to 900 milliseconds.
A critical analysis of lobbying as strategic institutional work, examining how powerful actors construct definitions of rationality through the German energy sector's solar curtailment framework.
Personal reflections from the course "Ethics, Responsibility & Sustainability in Management Research" on value-laden science, reflexivity, and the responsibility of researchers studying human behavior.

