Manage Slack AI settings

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Slack AI is an add-on for Slack that allows members of your organisation to summarise long conversations, get answers to questions, and more. When you purchase Slack AI, your members can use it immediately, but you can limit access by adjusting the following settings: 

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Manage access to Slack AI

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise Grid subscription

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace settings.
  3. Select the Permissions tab.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click Expand.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow access to Slack AI for everyone in your workspace, then click Save
  1. From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organisation settings.
  3. Choose   Settings in the left column, then select Organisation settings.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click on Edit.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow access to Slack AI for everyone in your organisation, then click Save


Allow members to send feedback to Slack

When your members make a Slack AI search request, they can rate the response provided by Slack AI in order to improve the Slack AI search experience. You can choose to limit your member’s ability to provide detailed feedback (they will always be able to provide basic feedback).

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise Grid subscription

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace settings.
  3. Select the Permissions tab.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click Expand.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow members to share Slack AI summaries and feedback details with Slack, then click Save
  1. From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organisation settings.
  3. Choose   Settings in the left column, then select Organisation settings.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click on Edit.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow members to share Slack AI summaries and feedback details with Slack, then click Save


Manage access to daily recaps

You can enable or disable use of daily recaps for your workspace or Enterprise Grid org:

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise Grid subscription

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace settings.
  3. Select the Permissions tab.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click Expand.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow access to the Slack AI recap feature, then click Save
  1. From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organisation settings.
  3. Choose   Settings in the left column, then select Organisation settings.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click on Edit.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow access to the Slack AI recap feature, then click Save


Choose which files appear in Slack AI search results

By default, Slack AI search answers will reference most types of files uploaded to Slack such as canvases, lists, PDFs and more. You can adjust what kinds of files appear in Slack AI search answers for your workspace or Enterprise Grid org by choosing between the following options:

  • Include all files
    AI searches include all applicable files from Slack.
  • Include only Slack files
    AI searches include files created in or uploaded to Slack, but not linked files (e.g. Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive files).
  • Exclude all files
    AI searches only include messages from your workspace or grid org.

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise Grid subscription

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace settings.
  3. Select the Permissions tab.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click Expand.
  5. Below Files in search, select an option, then click Save.
  1. From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organisation settings.
  3. Choose   Settings in the left column, then select Organisation settings.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click on Edit.
  5. Below Files in search, select an option, then click Save.


Manage access to Slack AI huddle notes

By default, your members can use Slack AI to take huddle notes, but you can restrict access if you’d like to:

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise Grid subscription

  1. From your desktop, click your workspace name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Workspace settings.
  3. Select the Permissions tab.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click Expand.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow access to the Slack AI huddle notes feature, then click Save.
  1. From your desktop, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
  2. Hover over Tools & settings, then select Organisation settings.
  3. Choose   Settings in the left column, then select Organisation settings.
  4. Next to Slack AI, click on Edit.
  5. Tick or untick the box next to Allow access to the Slack AI huddle notes feature, then click Save

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