Dartmouth Provost's op-eds flagged as 96% AI-written by near-zero-error detector Pangram
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-22
The Dartmouth investigation: Provost's articles flagged as AI-written
- The student paper ran Provost Santiago Schnell's 2026 academic articles and op-eds through Pangram — an AI detector that a University of Chicago audit called "near-zero error" — and found a median 96% "AI-written" score.
- The probe followed Semafor's finding that a Schnell column in The Washington Post — ironically about universities fighting AI cheating — scored 100% AI-written.
- Schnell says he used AI to make "writing processes more efficient" but not as a "substitute" for his "intellectual judgment or authorship."
- The paper also compared his publishing record before and after ChatGPT's November 2022 release.
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