@inproceedings{zahraei-etal-2026-alignment, title = "The Alignment Veto: How Safety Training Suppresses Cultural Knowledge in {LLM}s", author = {Zahraei, Pardis Sadat and Tur, Gokhan and Hakkani-T{\"u}r, Dilek and Asgari, Ehsaneddin}, editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1874/", pages = "42697--42741", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }