Straws in the Wind - Part 497

From The Dartmouth: ...Interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and government professor John Carey sent an email to Dartmouth’s undergraduate faculty containing “guidelines on use of AI detection in teaching.” The guidelines permit faculty to input student work to artificial intelligence detector Pangram. Pangram — which was found to have a “near-zero error rate” by an October 2025 University of Chicago audit — uses a large language model neural network that is trained to recognize differences between separate datasets of human-written documents and AI-generated content, according to the company’s website...

The guidelines also state that faculty “must inform” students of course policies on AI, including whether the professor may use AI detectors and whether the “results of such assessments could affect grades.” ...

Full story at https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/10/hyde-dean-of-faculty-authorizes-professors-to-use-ai-detector-pangram-to-review-student-work.