Dartmouth Provost Resigns After Committee Finds 2 Undisclosed AI Uses
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Updated · Ars Technica · Oct 30
Dartmouth Provost Resigns After Committee Finds 2 Undisclosed AI Uses
3 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Oct 30
Summary
An advisory committee found Santiago Schnell failed to disclose significant AI use in both an academic paper and an August 9 Washington Post op-ed, triggering his resignation from Dartmouth.
Claude enterprise records showed Schnell using the chatbot to revise papers, test arguments, generate or edit figures, and simulate a referee report for a chemistry submission.
The committee also cited “insufficient cooperation”: Schnell turned over his Dartmouth laptop but withheld logs from personal LLM accounts and declined to meet investigators.
Schnell had described the tools as editorial aids for refining arguments and grammar, saying he did not understand that AI-assisted editing required disclosure to publishers.
The case sharpens scrutiny of how universities and journals define acceptable AI assistance and when authors must disclose it.