@inproceedings{mahmoud-etal-2026-unintended, title = "The Unintended Trade-off of {AI} Alignment: Balancing Hallucination Mitigation and Safety in {LLM}s", author = "Mahmoud, Omar and Khalil, Ali and Karimpanal, Thommen George and Semage, Buddhika Laknath and Rana, Santu", editor = "Demberg, Vera and Inui, Kentaro and Marquez, Llu{\'i}s", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EACL} 2026", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.findings-eacl.53/", pages = "1017--1037", ISBN = "979-8-89176-386-9" }