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Provost Santiago Schnell of Dartmouth College has resigned after a faculty committee found he used artificial intelligence to shape his writing, including in a guest column for The Washington Post on AI cheating. The resignation, announced Wednesday, follows an investigation that determined Schnell was not forthcoming about his AI use and had meaningfully altered his writing with AI tools. University President Sian Leah Beilock stated that leaders must model transparency and human judgment, and confirmed the departure was Schnell’s decision.
The controversy emerged after Semafor analyzed guest columns using an AI filter, revealing that Schnell’s August Washington Post article was entirely AI-generated. Subsequent analysis by The Dartmouth found high levels of AI use in his recent writings, though earlier works were human-written. Schnell said he used AI for language refinement and clarity, including in a statement about the investigation. Dartmouth, which marks 1956 as the start of AI at the school in Hanover, New Hampshire, began a conference Thursday titled “What Must Remain Human?”
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