Is it permitted to use AI to write divrei Torah or prepare a drasha?

I am more relaxed about it than some of my colleagues. For generations darshanim have leaned on anthologies, indexes, and other people's seforim to gather their material — the tool is new, the practice is old. If AI helps you find a Midrash you would never have located or organize a sprawling idea into something a tired congregation can follow, that is a kindness to your listeners.

Two guardrails, though. Check every source it gives you against the actual text, because it will invent citations with great confidence. And make sure the neshama of the drasha — the part that asks something real of you and of them — comes from you, not from the machine. The research can be assisted; the sincerity cannot be outsourced.