Slack AI is a set of AI features in Slack, including Slackbot, summaries, search, automations and translation.

Slack describes Slackbot as your personal AI agent in Slack that understands you and your workspace.

Slack says anything shared in or integrated into Slack is searchable, including messages, files and records from connected apps.

Is every feature available to everyone?

No. Slack marks some features as early access or open beta, and availability depends on your workspace.

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Slack AI

Slack AI is AI inside Slack. Slack’s own page describes Slackbot as a personal AI agent, summaries of channels and threads, search across everything shared in Slack, and automations.

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What Slack AI does

Offers Slackbot, a personal AI agent that Slack says understands you and your workspace, and helps prepare for meetings, analyse reports and create project briefs.
Summarises channels and threads and serves daily recaps.
Searches conversations, files and integrated apps such as Google Drive, support tickets and Salesforce records, if they are shared in or integrated into Slack.
Creates automations in a few clicks, translates conversations and can take meeting notes.
Has an early-access briefing called Today that signals what needs your attention.

What people use it for

Catch up without the scroll
Read the summary of a busy channel or thread instead of every message.
Find an answer
Search across messages, files and connected apps from one place.
Prepare for a meeting
Ask Slackbot to gather what your workspace knows about the topic.

Who it suits

Teams that already work in Slack and have more messages than they can read.
Customer service, engineering, sales and marketing teams, which Slack names on its page.

Plans and access

Slack AI features depend on your workspace and plan, and some are early access or open beta. Read Slack’s current terms and ask your workspace admin what is turned on.

How to start

1Open Slack’s AI page to see what your workspace could use. Open
2Ask your workspace admin which AI features are enabled.
3Try a channel summary on a channel you know well and check it against what you remember.
4Ask Slackbot one real question and open the sources it points to.

Watch and learn

Videos from Slack’s own channel, so you can learn it here. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. More on the Slack channel.

Slack · 2026
Slack School | Meet Slackbot, your AI Agent for Work
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Slack · 2026
Slackbot isn’t just AI. It’s a teammate.
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Slack · 2025
Slack reimagines work for Anthropic at the speed of AI
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Common questions about Slack AI

What is Slack AI?: Slack AI is a set of AI features in Slack, including Slackbot, summaries, search, automations and translation.
What is Slackbot?: Slack describes Slackbot as your personal AI agent in Slack that understands you and your workspace.
What can it search?: Slack says anything shared in or integrated into Slack is searchable, including messages, files and records from connected apps.
Is every feature available to everyone?: No. Slack marks some features as early access or open beta, and availability depends on your workspace.

Where this comes from

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