Dartmouth College provost resigns following investigation into undisclosed AI usage
Provost Santiago Schnell has resigned from Dartmouth College after an internal investigation found he failed to disclose the use of artificial intelligence in his academic writing.
Santiago Schnell has stepped down as provost of Dartmouth College following an investigation by an advisory committee. The probe concluded that Schnell failed to disclose significant use of artificial intelligence in both a scholarly paper and a Washington Post op-ed, violating transparency requirements set by the publishers.
The investigation faced obstacles due to what the committee described as "insufficient cooperation" from Schnell. While he provided access to his university laptop, he withheld logs from personal AI accounts and declined to meet with the committee during the fact-finding process.
Access to the institution's enterprise account for the AI tool Claude confirmed that Schnell utilized the software for drafting revisions, debugging code, and generating figures for his work. The incident underscores a growing tension in academia regarding the transparency of AI integration in research and editorial projects.