Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned after an advisory committee found that he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in a Washington Post op-ed, according to the source. The report says publishers required such disclosure.
The committee reviewed a Claude enterprise account Schnell used through Dartmouth. The logs show him using the chatbot to revise papers, find and fix bugs in code, and edit or generate figures. In one exchange, he asked Claude to review a manuscript as a referee would. In another, he asked Claude: "Are there many signatures of AI writing in this article?" He later submitted a revised manuscript that included changes Claude suggested, the report says.
Schnell did not turn over logs from his personal LLM accounts or agree to meet with the committee. The report uses the term "insufficient cooperation." The committee says his public statements may understate "the nature of the Provost's actual AI use" and that he "went beyond his other public descriptions of his use of AI in writing."
Schnell has described his AI use as editorial. He told Semafor he used chatbots "to refine a few arguments" and "check for grammatical errors." He told one journal editor that he "used AI as an editorial tool." He said he did not disclose it because he "did not understand that this type of AI-assisted editing required disclosure."
Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock wrote in announcing the resignation that leaders must model "the transparency and human judgment that we expect from our students and scholars." The source reports that the university continues to expand its AI programs.