The agent’s answer
Ismita recommends not using AI to write a query letter, though she frames this candidly as a hot topic: agents feel differently about what AI use is appropriate, and she offers her own view as an "on average" impression rather than settled agent consensus. Agents want to hear from you as a writer, not what an AI-generated synopsis or query looks like. The moderator, agent Sarah Fisk, adds a reason that serves the writer’s own interest: today’s tools are large language models built to produce the next most obvious word, so AI-written queries read as generic and not specific to the story, which is death in the query pile. Ismita agrees and notes she can spot AI a mile away in the generic, overly personal scam emails agents now receive.