Dartmouth's provost quit after a faculty panel read his Claude logs

Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell resigned on Wednesday, October 28, and is leaving the university after a faculty-led committee concluded he used AI to meaningfully alter his writing and fell short of the school's academic integrity standards. President Sian Leah Beilock convened the committee on September 25, after a Semafor investigation in August and a student-newspaper follow-up flagged his published writing; he had been set to face a faculty no-confidence vote in less than two weeks.

The committee pointedly did not use AI detectors. It worked from Dartmouth's enterprise Claude logs and his emails, finding Claude substantially edited a research manuscript after peer review, troubleshot computer code and generated figures — and that Schnell asked Claude whether a forthcoming article bore many signatures of AI writing, then submitted a revised version incorporating its suggestions. He gave inspectors his Dartmouth laptop but did not hand over logs from personal AI accounts or meet at the requested time.

The irony writes itself: Dartmouth calls itself the birthplace of AI, hosted the field's founding 1956 workshop, and is holding an 'AI at 70' conference this week. Beilock said senior leaders must model the transparency expected of students, and history professor Matthew Delmont will serve as interim provost through June 2028.