# AI employee

An AI employee is an AI agent given an ongoing role, shared work context, and permission to complete defined tasks across a team’s tools. It is software, not a legal employee.

## Why it matters

The useful distinction is responsibility for an outcome. An AI employee can carry recurring work from request to evidence-backed result, keep the work visible to the team, and stop at explicit approval boundaries instead of only answering one prompt at a time.

## Example

A team asks its AI employee in Slack to prepare the weekly operating review. It gathers approved metrics from connected systems, explains what changed, links the evidence, and returns decisions and owner follow-ups to the shared channel.

## FAQ

### What is the difference between an AI employee and an AI assistant?

An AI assistant usually helps with an individual request. An AI employee is configured around an ongoing role or outcome, shared team context, connected tools, and repeatable work with explicit permissions and approval points.

### Can an AI employee work inside Slack?

Yes. Slack can be the place where a team delegates, reviews, and corrects work, while connected systems remain the sources of truth. The AI employee should use only the tools and data the workspace has authorized.

### Does an AI employee replace a human employee?

Not as a legal or accountable person. It is software that can take on bounded, repeatable work. People remain responsible for goals, judgment, exceptions, sensitive decisions, and the authority granted to the system.


Source: https://www.luffy.so/ai-glossary/ai-employee

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