Despite the scandal, Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock wants more AI. (She wrote a piece for The Atlantic in September called “Why I Want More AI at Dartmouth.”) What’s crucial, though, is that the school’s leaders should “hold themselves to the highest standards,” she said. This appears to mean one main thing: disclosure.

In announcing Schnell’s resignation , Beilock wrote that “each of us brings a different perspective on how and when to incorporate AI into our work and our lives. Moreover, keeping Dartmouth at the forefront of AI inevitably means leading through an environment that is fluid and fast-changing. That is why, as leaders, it is so critical that we model the transparency and human judgment that we expect from our students and scholars.”

Who wrote this?

What does “disclosure” mean? In a September 2026 paper on AI detection tools, called “Who Wrote This?”, Schnell himself goes to great lengths to argue that “human-written” or “AI-written” is far too simple a binary.…