THE CRUNCH
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell has resigned after an advisory committee found he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in a Washington Post op-ed, even though the publishers required such disclosure. The irony is hard to miss: on August 9, 2026, Schnell published that very op-ed, titled "Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there's a deeper problem."
The committee's investigation was not straightforward. Its report describes Schnell's conduct as "insufficient cooperation": he handed over his Dartmouth laptop but not logs from his personal LLM accounts tied to the writings in question, and he did not agree to meet with the committee.
Investigators did get access to the Claude enterprise account Schnell used through Dartmouth. It shows him using the chatbot to revise papers, find and fix bugs in code, and edit or generate figures, including running papers through Claude with revision prompts.