The editorial board of the journal Bezpieczeństwo. Teoria i Praktyka (Security: Theory and Practice, hereinafter: BTiP) recognizes both the rapid development of AI tools and their usefulness when used responsibly, as well as the risks and threats associated with them.
AI Tools: Assistive and Generative
Assistive Tools (Assistive AI)
Assistive AI tools suggest, correct, and enhance human-generated content (e.g., flagging spelling, grammar, and spelling errors, proactively suggesting the next word or phrase). Human-generated content enhanced with these tools is considered “AI-assisted.”
Generative Tools (Generative AI)
This term refers to tools such as ChatGPT, Copailot, or Dall-e that generate content in the form of text, images, or translations. Such content, even if subsequently significantly modified by a human, will be considered “AI-generated content.”
Authorship Policy
• Generative AI tools may not be used to create or modify text or images in submitted articles. The BTiP editorial office does not accept articles generated by AI tools, in whole or in part.
• Articles submitted to BTiP must be authored by a human.
• An AI tool cannot be considered the author or co-author of the article.
• The submitting author must complete and sign the appropriate 
declaration, including an assurance that generative AI tools were not used to create or modify the article’s content (text or images):
“The author declares that the article is the result of their independent, individual work was created without using any generative artificial intelligence tools, in particular for generating the entire text or parts of the text, generating and modifying images, generating false or misleading citations or sources.”
• Authors are fully responsible for the content and originality of the submitted text.
• If a study referenced in the paper (e.g., a simulation) was conducted using generative AI tools, or if the use of AI tools is part of the research project or research methods, the author must indicate this fact in the publication (e.g., in a footnote) and provide a detailed description of the function and scope of these tools.
• BTiP allows authors to use assistive AI tools and does not require this information to be included in the submission or in the text itself.
Translation Policy
• The BTiP editorial office does not accept articles translated in whole or in part by machine translation. We believe that available AI tools are still unable to replace human translators.
• Only a human can be the author of a translation and is responsible for the quality of the translation.
• Submissions of articles translated from the original language into another language must include information about the author of the translation.
• Information about the author of the translation will be included in the published article.
• If the author of the translation is the author of the article, this must be clearly stated in the submission.
• The BTiP editorial office uses the Plagiat.pl anti-plagiarism system with AI-generated content detection.
• Human translations using computer-assisted translation tools are permitted. Each such translation must be additionally reviewed and verified by a human to avoid errors resulting from misunderstanding the context and intentions of the author, as well as the specific nature of the original language.
Rules regarding the use of AI tools by BTiP editors
• The BTiP editors do not use generative AI tools to perform tasks related to the publishing process. All submitted articles are evaluated at every stage by a human, and all editorial work and correspondence are handled by a human.
• The BTiP editorial office uses the Plagiat.pl anti-plagiarism system with AI-generated content detection. The system’s report is evaluated and verified by a human.
Rules regarding the use of AI tools by reviewers
• Only human reviewers may author reviews.
• The use of AI tools to generate reviews is prohibited. Reviewing a scientific article involves a responsibility that can only be attributed to a human. Reviewers should not use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies to create a review.
• Reviewers are fully responsible for the content of the review.
Confidentiality
• The submitted article is treated as a confidential document.
• Editors and reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of the review process.
• Editors and reviewers may not submit an article or parts thereof to generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot, as this may violate confidentiality and copyright. They may also not share information about submitted articles or their reviews with generative AI tools, even if this is only to improve spelling, style, and readability.