Manage access to AI features in Slack

Slack offers a variety of AI features that allow people in your workspace or Enterprise organisation to quickly summarise conversations, take notes during huddles and more. Owners and admins can manage access to AI features to restrict usage or turn certain features off entirely.

Feature availability

The AI features available to you in Slack depend on your subscription:

	Pro	Business+	Enterprise+
Member feedback on AI responses*	✓	✓	✓
Suggested sidebar sections	✓	✓	✓
Conversation summaries	✓	✓	✓
Huddle notes	✓	✓	✓
Search		✓	✓
Recaps		✓	✓
File summaries		✓	✓
Translations		✓	✓
Workflow automation		✓	✓
AI workflow steps		✓	✓
Message explanations		✓	✓
Canvas content generation		✓	✓
Slackbot		✓	✓
Enterprise search			✓

*Members’ ability to submit feedback to Slack on AI responses is blocked in some workspaces or Enterprise organisations by default. Owners and admins in these workspaces or orgs can override this setting to allow feedback submissions. 

Manage AI feature access

Pro and Business+ subscriptions

Enterprise subscriptions

1. From your desktop, click   Admin in the sidebar. 
2. Select Workspace settings from the menu, then click   Roles & permissions. 
3. Click Feature access and select AI.
4. Next to the AI feature that you’d like to manage, click Edit and choose whether Everyone or No one can use it. Some AI features include other settings that you can manage in addition to deciding who can use them.
5. Click on Save.

1. From the   Home tab, click your organisation name in the sidebar.
   
2. Select Tools & settings from the menu, then click Organisation settings.
3. Click   Roles & permissions and select Feature access.
4. Click AI.
5. Next to the AI feature that 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. Some AI features include other settings that you can manage in addition to deciding who can use them.
6. Select any groups you like, then click Next to select individual users. 
7. Click on Save.

Note: Managing access to AI features for groups relies on IDP groups rather than workspace-level user groups.  

Manage additional settings

There are additional settings available for some AI features:

Feature	Settings
Huddle notes	Whether people can change the automatic huddle notes setting in channels
Search	Whether people can share responses Whether files can be used to generate responses
Message explanations	Whether people can share responses
Slackbot	Whether Slackbot can create and edit canvases Whether files can be used to generate responses

Note: The additional file setting that you choose for search answers will also apply to Slackbot responses (and vice versa).

Who can use this feature?

• Workspace owners/admins and org owners/admins
• Available on paid subscriptions