Key Takeaway
Deloitte announced a new Slack integration featuring Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, allowing users to interact with it directly within their Slack workspaces. This integration enables communication through direct messages, an AI panel, or threaded discussions, and users can link Claude to Slack apps for relevant message searches. It maintains existing Slack permissions, ensuring Claude only accesses authorized channels. Rob Seaman, Chief Product Officer of Slack, emphasized that this partnership enhances the collaboration between AI and humans, facilitating a seamless integration of advanced AI into everyday workflows.
Slack Integration Expands Reach
The Deloitte announcement follows Anthropic’s recent launch of a Slack integration, allowing users to access Claude directly from their Slack workspaces.
This integration enables employees to engage with Claude through direct messages, an AI assistant panel, or by mentioning the assistant in threaded conversations.
Additionally, users can connect Slack to Claude’s applications, allowing the AI to search and reference relevant Slack messages when providing responses.
The integration maintains existing Slack permissions, ensuring that Claude can only access channels and conversations that users are authorized to view.
“Every company is progressing toward becoming an agentic enterprise, where AI agents collaborate with humans,” states Rob Seaman, Chief Product Officer of Slack at Salesforce.
“Collaborating with Anthropic to integrate Claude into Slack and incorporate Slack context into Claude accelerates that journey – delivering top-tier AI directly into the workflow.”
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