Slack Is Transforming Slackbot Into an AI Assistant
Slackbot, the team communications platform assistant Slack, is getting AI improvements and integrations with other AI chatbots to become more agentic, Slack said during a presentation at Dreamforce, a technology conference in San Francisco, on Monday.
Slackbot works as a simple assistant, sending people reminders, notifications, or updates about their colleagues. It’s not conversational in the same way as ChatGPT. With these AI improvements, Slackbot will soon function more like an AI chatbot, capable of doing things on behalf of a person.
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Enterprise users will soon be able to chat with Slackbot, asking it to help them with projects or analyze documents. Slack will also integrate with Google Drive, One Drive and Salesforce. OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and others also integrate their agents into Slack. For example, you can ask @Claude to search the web or scan your workspace for new information.
At the moment, the AI version of Slackbot is in beta and limited to 70,000 users. However, it will be made available to all users in January 2026. Slack will then roll out the feature more widely later this year. Businesses can also deactivate Slackbot.
A Slack representative referred reporters to its blog post.
AI-ification of applications has been a common trend since the release of ChatGPT. Apps like Duolingo, Canva, Phot,oshop and others have all added AI features to make it easier for users and attract money from investors. Slack’s biggest competitor in the space, Microsoft Teams, has recently integrated more AI features.
