You'll soon be able to talk to Slack — and if you're lucky, it'll even talk back

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  • Slack users will soon be able to talk to the program's Slackbot AI agent
  • Slackbot will look to help you with all kinds of business tasks
  • There's no release date yet, just "coming soon"

Slack has revealed a host of new features and upgrades as it looks to help users around the world be more productive and effective.

Speaking at parent company Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026, Rob Seaman: EVP & GM at Slack unveiled new tools to allow the platform to be "the front door to the agentic enteprise".

This includes new upgrades to its Slackbot AI program - with users soon set to be able to have a two-way conversation with the platform.

Slackbot speaks

Ask Slackbot a natural language question, and it should then talk back, including the ability to trigger real actions, like updating a record or kicking off an automation.

For example, a worker travelling to...

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