Dartmouth's provost resigned after a committee found he did not disclose his AI use in a paper and a newspaper essay

Ars Technica reports that Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned this week after an advisory committee found he failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in a Washington Post essay, even though the publishers required it. The committee saw his Claude logs, where he used the AI to revise papers, fix code and make figures, and said he did not cooperate fully. Schnell says he used AI only as an editing aid.

• Before you send a report, tender, CV or article that was written or edited with AI, check whether the person or publisher you are sending it to has a rule about disclosing it.
• If a customer, employer or publisher asks how a document was made, answer plainly, and keep a note of which tool you used for what.

Source: Ars Technica. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Dartmouth College, from its own announcement. How we source and credit