GoKawiilDartmouth Provost Santiago Schnell Admits Using AI in Published Writing
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.