There are a few steps you can take when using AI to summarise your meetings that will improve the outcome.
Always keep in mind our Principles for Working with AI including ensuring human responsibility. AI might give a list of actions that miss an action for you. It's still your responsibility to complete that action. Some information might be summarised wrong. It's our human responsibility to check/correct before we act.
Some general tips from using the tools:
State Actions Clearly
Use direct language like “Action: Sarah to send the report by Friday” so Slack AI can capture it as a distinct task. It will list actions out for you in the summary.
Summarise Regularly
Pause occasionally to recap key points or decisions. This helps the AI structure the notes more accurately.
Use Names When Assigning Tasks
Don't say "so you'll do that". Clearly say who is responsible — e.g. “Tom to follow up with Chris” — to avoid ambiguity.
Avoid Talking Over Each Other
Give space for one person to speak at a time. Politeness anyway but, also, overlapping dialogue can confuse the AI and lead to missed details or inaccuracies in who said something.
Flag Key Moments
Say things like “Let’s note this down” or “This is a key decision” or words like "task", "deadline", "owner" to help the AI prioritise the right content.
Be Wary of Meeting "Drift"
The fact that the summary is in the channel/DM where the huddle was should mean that nobody gets access to the meeting that shouldn't. But there is the potential for someone to be added to the channel later who wasn't in the meeting as well as people who miss a meeting getting access to the notes. These could both be good things but also things to be aware of.
The other possible risk is "drift" of a meeting. If you have a meeting on a channel and two people decide to "stay on" for a different discussion, make sure you stop the recording otherwise your additional conversation will also be captured in the summary.
Review and Refine Summaries
The beauty of the summary being in a canvas is that it's editable. Task someone from the meeting to review the canvas notes and edit as appropriate to ensure they are accurate and complete.