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Dartmouth Provost Schnell Resigns After Undisclosed AI Use Found

By Drooid · Oct 29, 2026 · How we work

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Santiago Schnell resigned as Dartmouth provost after a review found he used AI to alter writings without disclosure.
The review committee said he violated AI-disclosure rules for a ChemSystemsChem journal paper.
He breached The Washington Post policy by failing to disclose AI use in his August 9 op-ed.
President Sian Leah Beilock appointed Matthew Delmont as interim provost through June 2028.

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Nature’s 2020 AI-disclosure policy, backed by OpenAI’s $1 billion funding round, set a precedent for labeling machine-generated text. The trend continued with the U.S. Congress introducing the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act on April 9 2024 and the EU’s AI Act enforcing transparency from August 2024. Schnell’s August 9 op-ed breach reflects these growing enforcement efforts.

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Nature’s 2020 AI-disclosure policy, backed by OpenAI’s $1 billion funding round, set a precedent for labeling machine-generated text. The trend continued with the U.S. Congress introducing the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act on April 9 2024 and the EU’s AI Act enforcing transparency from August 2024. Schnell’s August 9 op-ed breach reflects these growing enforcement efforts.

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