Creative Commons & Reuse

CC BY-NC 4.0

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Except where otherwise noted, the original course text, structure, and teaching materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

What the symbols mean

• CC — Creative Commons: this material is shared under a standard public license.
• BY — Attribution: credit the creators, link to the license, and identify changes. Do not imply endorsement.
• NC — NonCommercial: the license permits reuse for noncommercial purposes.

What you can do

You can copy, share, and adapt covered materials under these conditions. Do not impose additional legal or technical restrictions on the freedoms the license grants.

Copyright and credit

Professor Stephen H. Shore owns the copyright to the original course materials and originally designed and led the course.

When reusing material, retain applicable credits and source notices. For example:

Adapted from Existential Risk: An Open Course, designed and led by Stephen H. Shore; online contributions by Abbad Ali and Suyog Thengale. Source. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Changes: [describe your changes].

Third-party materials

This license does not cover third-party books, papers, quotations, images, videos, trademarks, logos, or linked resources. Their owners’ terms apply. This includes Toby Ord’s The Precipice. Check each source before reuse.

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This page summarizes the existing course license. The CC BY-NC 4.0 legal code controls. You can also read the repository license notice.