@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-helpfulness,
    title = "From Helpfulness to Toxic Proactivity: Diagnosing Behavioral Misalignment in {LLM} Agents",
    author = "Wang, Xinyue  and
      Zhang, Yuanhe  and
      Gong, Zhengshuo  and
      Gao, Haoran  and
      Meng, Fanyu  and
      Zhou, Zhenhong  and
      Sun, Li  and
      Liu, Yang  and
      Su, Sen",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1656/",
    pages = "35278--35312",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}