1. Slack Help Center
  2. Workspace administration
  3. Workspace settings & permissions
    4. Manage Slack AI settings

Manage Slack AI settings

Who can use this feature?

Slack AI is a paid add-on that allows members of your organization to summarize conversations, get answers to questions, and more using a set of generative AI tools built right into Slack. Once you purchase Slack AI, you can manage access to individual features included with the add-on or set bulk permissions.

Don't have Slack AI yet? Purchase it for your organization or contact our Sales team to learn more.

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Slack AI features

Owners and admins can manage access to the following Slack AI features:

  • Send feedback to Slack
    When your members use Slack AI, they can rate responses in order to improve the experience. You can choose to limit your members’ ability to provide detailed feedback (but please note that it’s not possible to restrict sharing basic feedback).
  • Channel and thread summaries
    Choose whether members can summarize unread messages in any conversation.
  • Huddle notes
    Decide whether members can use AI to take notes during huddles in channels and direct messages (DMs).
  • Recap
    Enable or disable daily recaps, automated summaries of channels your members select.
  • File summaries
    Slack AI will summarize certain files when they’re shared in conversations.
  • Search answers and files in AI search
    Allow members to use AI search to ask questions and get answers with citations. Plus, decide whether search answers reference files shared in Slack.
  • Translations
    Choose whether people can automatically translate messages in Slack.
  • Workflow Builder
    Decide whether your members can use Slack AI to create workflows.

Tip: If you’re on Enterprise Grid, enable enterprise search so your members can find information and content from other sources (like Google Drive, GitHub, and more) right in Slack. 


Manage access

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Select Tools & settings, then click Workspace settings.
  3. Below Administration in the left sidebar, click Manage permissions.
  4. Click Feature Access, then click Slack AI.
  5. Next to the feature you’d like to manage, click Edit and choose whether Everyone or No one can use it.
  6. Click Save.
  1. From your desktop, click your organization name in the sidebar.
  2. Select Tools & settings, then click Organization settings.
  3. Click  Roles & permissions, then select Feature access.
  4. Click Slack AI.
  5. Next to the feature you’d like to manage, click Edit and choose who can use it: No one, Only specific people and groups, Everyone except specific people and groups, or Everyone.
  6. Click Save.

Tip: To turn all AI features off, click Disable AI in the top-right corner of the Feature access page.


Manage Slack AI purchase requests

If you’re on the Pro or Business+ plan but are not using Slack AI, your members may be able to request it. Workspace Owners can turn this option off by following the steps below:

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Select Tools & settings, then click Billing.
  3. Click the Settings tab. 
  4. Below Purchasing & free trials, uncheck the box next to Allow anyone to request trials or purchases.
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