"But for organizations with paid Slack plans that have AI features enabled, Slackbot is receiving a bit of a brain transplant. The company has rebuilt the humble bot as an AI agent that can help bring you up to speed on workplace discussions and priorities, pull in data from other software your organization has integrated with Slack, help draft reports and Slack canvas documents, and even help schedule meetings with your colleagues."
"It's part of a push by Salesforce-owned Slack to move from being simply a tool for chatting with colleagues to a hub for coordinating with both humans and bots. Slack already supports more than 2,600 third-party apps, and the new Slackbot is expected to increasingly integrate with specialized AI agents and software tools. "The way that we think about Slack today is as the conversational interface, if you will, for what we call the agentic enterprise, where humans and agents are all working fluidly and seamlessly together to get work done," says Rob Seaman, Slack's chief product officer and interim CEO."
Slack has rebuilt Slackbot into an AI agent available to organizations on paid plans with AI features. The new Slackbot can summarize workplace discussions and priorities, pull data from connected software like Google Drive, Box, Microsoft Teams, and Salesforce, draft reports and Slack Canvas documents, and assist with scheduling meetings. Slack aims to evolve from a chat tool to a hub coordinating humans and AI agents, integrating with more than 2,600 third-party apps and specialized AI tools. Users can send plain-language requests to Slackbot similar to general-purpose AI assistants. Other tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, OpenAI, and Anthropic are also enhancing chat-powered assistants, indicating a broader industry trend toward integrated AI in office workflows.
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