Dartmouth Provost Resigns Over Undisclosed AI Use
Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell resigned after an advisory committee found that he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and a Washington Post op-ed, according to Ars Technica AI. The committee said his cooperation was “insufficient”; he provided his Dartmouth laptop but not logs from relevant personal LLM accounts, while the committee accessed his Dartmouth Claude enterprise account.
The case highlights how institutions may investigate and enforce disclosure rules for AI-assisted academic writing and senior leaders’ accountability.
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On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called “Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem.” This week, Schnell discovered the depths of the problem himself as he resigned from the university after an advisory committee found that he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in the Washington Post op-ed, even though publishers required such disclosure.
Schnell didn’t make it especially easy for the committee to investigate his AI use; the report uses the term “insufficient cooperation.” He did turn over his Dartmouth laptop, but he did not turn over logs from his personal LLM accounts related to the writings in question. Nor did he agree to meet with the committee.
The committee did get access to the Claude enterprise account Schnell had used through Dartmouth, though. This shows him using the LLM as a tool for revising his papers, finding and fixing bugs in code, and editing or generating figures. For instance, Schnell would run his papers through Claude and ask things like:
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