Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
Summary
Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell resigned after an advisory committee found that he had not disclosed significant AI use in an academic paper and a Washington Post op-ed. The committee reviewed logs from his Dartmouth Claude account, but said it could not establish the full scope of his AI use because Schnell did not provide related logs from personal accounts or meet with investigators.Key Facts
- Schnell published a Washington Post op-ed about universities and AI cheating on August 9, 2026.
- The committee found that Schnell failed to disclose AI use in an academic paper and the op-ed, although the publishers required disclosure.
- Logs from Schnell’s Dartmouth Claude account showed him using AI to revise writing, review code, and edit or generate figures.
- Schnell described his AI use publicly as help with refining arguments, grammar, clarity, and sentence editing.
- Schnell did not provide the committee with logs from his personal AI accounts related to the writings under review.
- The committee said Schnell’s cooperation was insufficient and that his public descriptions may have understated his AI use.
- One Claude exchange showed Schnell asking whether a manuscript contained signs of AI writing.
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