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Incident 1791: Dartmouth College Provost's Undisclosed AI-Assisted Writing Was Found to Have Breached Publication Policies

Description: A faculty review at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, found that provost Santiago Schnell used ChatGPT and Claude in published writing without required disclosure and fell short of institutional standards. The review examined AI logs and correspondence rather than detector scores. Schnell resigned and was leaving the college after the findings were released.

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Alleged: OpenAI , Anthropic and Large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by Santiago Schnell , Academics and Chatbot users, which harmed Santiago Schnell , Dartmouth College , Universities , Educational communities and Academic integrity.
Alleged implicated AI systems: ChatGPT , Claude , Large language models and Chatbots

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Incident ID
1791
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-08-09
Editors
Daniel Atherton

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Incident OccurrenceSenior official at Dartmouth College resigns over AI use
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Senior official at Dartmouth College resigns over AI use

Senior official at Dartmouth College resigns over AI use

washingtonpost.com

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Senior official at Dartmouth College resigns over AI use
washingtonpost.com · 2026

A top administrator at Dartmouth College resigned after a faculty committee determined that he had improperly failed to disclose the use of artificial intelligence in some of his academic and public writing, the school announced Wednesday.…

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