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Autostep, a YC-backed workflow automation startup, opens hiring for engineers and Chief of Staff

Autostep, a San Francisco startup building a desktop app that identifies repetitive, costly tasks inside companies and recommends fixes via AI agents or process changes, is expanding its team. The company is recruiting AI and fullstack engineers along with a Chief of Staff as it scales its product. Autostep is part of Y Combinator's current batch and has backing from Neo and executives tied to companies like Cognition, Vanta, and OneTrust.

ycombinator.com · 2026-08-24

New book challenges the premise behind AI consciousness debates

Cognitive scientist Anthony Chemero's book 'Intertwined Creatures' argues that much of the current discussion about whether AI can be conscious rests on flawed, outdated notions of human cognition itself. He contends that Western philosophy's traditional model of mind as a detached, disembodied thinker is wrong, and instead proposes that human cognition is embodied, dynamic, and fundamentally shaped by social and environmental interaction.

nature.com · 2026-08-24