HANOVER — Dartmouth Provost Santiago Schnell resigned on Friday and is leaving Dartmouth University after an independent faculty committee concluded he used artificial intelligence to alter academic publications and op-eds in violation of disclosure policies and ethical standards. President Sian Leah Beilock convened the advisory committee on September 25, 2026, to review Schnell’s use of AI in his academic publications and public writing. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu

The committee concluded that Provost Schnell used AI to meaningfully alter his writing in violation of at least one publication’s AI use and/or disclosure requirement. It also found that he failed to disclose his use of AI in clear violation of a national newspaper’s stated policy and was not forthcoming about his AI use. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu

According to the committee, Provost Schnell fell short of the standards set forth by Dartmouth’s Code of Ethical Conduct, the Academic Honor Principle, and Geisel’s Policy on Expectations for Professionalism for Faculty, Non-Faculty Academics, and Staff. Matthew Delmont will serve as interim provost through June 2028. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu

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Provost Schnell admitted in an email to the journal that he used ChatGPT for language refinement and code review in the 'Reaction Acceleration' paper, but did not disclose his use of Dartmouth's Claude AI tool. He used Dartmouth’s enterprise AI tool, Claude, to substantially edit his research manuscript, troubleshoot errors in computer code, and generate figures for his publication 'Reaction Acceleration: Reviving the second derivative in chemical kinetics' following the receipt of major revisions from peer reviewers. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu

Provost Schnell failed to disclose his use of AI in the publication 'Reaction Acceleration: Reviving the second derivative in chemical kinetics' at submission or at publication, despite publisher policies requiring such disclosure since at least 2023. Provost Schnell published at least 30 academic and published writings since joining Dartmouth, with seven additional writings listed as forthcoming on his CV, according to the Advisory Committee Report. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu

Provost Schnell emailed co-authors during the revision process of a paper to disclose using 'Claude Max Code and ChatGPT Pro Code' for code optimization, but no AI disclosure was made in the final publication. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu

Provost Schnell uploaded a manuscript of a forthcoming article entitled 'Academic Freedom and Catholic Mission: The Procedural Overlap Zone in University Governance' to Claude and prompted it to identify signatures of AI writing. Primary source: president.dartmouth.edu