Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell Resigns

Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell resigned after a faculty committee determined that he used artificial intelligence in his texts, including an op-ed he wrote for The Washington Post on AI plagiarism.

Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell stepped down from his position following allegations that he used artificial intelligence tools for text formatting and an investigation by a faculty committee. While University President Sian Leah Beilock stated that Schnell's departure was his own decision, the school administration and board closely monitored the process.

The process began when the news website Semafor ran some op-eds from major newspapers through an AI filter, revealing that Schnell's op-ed published in The Washington Post in August was entirely written by artificial intelligence. Subsequently, the school newspaper The Dartmouth examined Schnell's previous written statements and determined the rates of artificial intelligence usage.

The investigation conducted by the faculty committee concluded that Schnell used artificial intelligence to significantly modify his writing and was not transparent about it. Schnell, a Venezuelan mathematical biologist, previously held academic and administrative positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University.