Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock, who has called for more AI at the school, said leaders must "hold themselves to the highest standards," which appears to center on disclosure, after provost Schnell resigned over his own AI use. In his September 2026 paper "Who Wrote This?" on AI detection tools, Schnell argued that "human-written" versus "AI-written" is too simple a binary, describing how he used GPT-5.6 Pro and other models for drafting, literature identification and review while making the final decisions himself and taking full responsibility for the manuscript. He rejected calling the paper AI "co-authored," writing that "contribution and authorship are different roles."