Slack Says Your Data Will Stay Private
According to Rob Seaman, chief product officer of Slack at Salesforce, the new AI functions will be operating within Amazon Web Services’ virtual private cloud, “meaning that no data leaves the firewall, [and] no data is used in the training of the models at all.”
The companies using Slack can chose whether they want to opt in or opt out of the new Slackbot. However, individuals working within those companies won’t have the option to opt out (aside from simply choosing not to open the tool, should it be made available).
The new Slackbot is already in use internally at Salesforce, and the company plans to roll it out to all users at the end of 2025.
