Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned this week after an advisory committee found he had failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in a Washington Post op-ed he wrote about AI cheating in academia. The committee reviewed his Dartmouth-issued Claude account and found extensive use of the chatbot for revising drafts, debugging code, and generating figures, while noting he showed 'insufficient cooperation' by withholding personal LLM logs and declining to meet with investigators. Schnell maintains he used AI only as an editorial aid to refine arguments and grammar, not to draft content.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-30
An AI-detection tool called Pangram flagged an August Washington Post op-ed by Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell, which criticized AI cheating, as likely LLM-generated, according to a Semafor report. A follow-up investigation by student paper The Dartmouth found the same tool identified nine other recent works by Schnell as largely AI-written. Schnell confirmed to The Dartmouth that he uses AI for 'language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization,' while maintaining he develops the ideas, research and structure himself.
thefloatingcontinent.com
· 2026-10-16
Dartmouth College is investigating provost Santiago Schnell after its student newspaper, The Dartmouth, found signs of AI-generated text in writing published under his name. Schnell said he used AI for editing and clarity, but when the newspaper ran his own explanatory statement through an AI detector, it also flagged that text as AI-generated. The controversy began after Semafor reported on AI detection tool Pangram finding AI use across opinion pages at major outlets.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-30
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell has acknowledged using AI chatbots while writing opinion pieces and academic articles, after a Semafor investigation flagged one of his Washington Post columns as 100 percent AI-generated by the Pangram detection tool. A follow-up analysis by student paper The Dartmouth found nine of his post-2022 works scored a median of 96 percent AI-written, compared to 100 percent human-written scores for his pre-ChatGPT work. Schnell maintains he retains full authorship, saying AI was used only for tasks like language refinement and copyediting.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-26
Dartmouth College is developing its own AI-based systems, modeled partly on approaches used by companies like Google, to help students and alumni navigate career decisions as artificial intelligence reshapes hiring. The tools are meant to help people identify suitable career paths and job opportunities amid growing uncertainty in the entry-level labor market caused by automation and AI-driven recruiting.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-21
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