Dartmouth provost who warned about AI cheating resigns over his own undisclosed AI use
Original title: Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell, who published a Washington Post op-ed on August 9, 2026 calling on universities to fight AI cheating, resigned after an advisory committee found he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and the op-ed. Accessing the Dartmouth Claude enterprise account, the committee found he used the LLM to revise papers, find and fix code bugs, and edit or generate figures; the report cited his 'insufficient cooperation,' noting he turned over his work laptop but not personal LLM account logs and declined to meet the committee.
Why it mattersThe report's details show how disclosure rules around AI use played out in a real academic misconduct case.
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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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