diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 12a9331d..5edca5de 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # (opm.agents.chat, AIMLChatEngine). No API key or other external credential
 # is needed -- AIML pattern matching runs entirely offline against the
 # bundled aiml_data.
-FROM python:3.12-slim
+FROM python:3.14-slim
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*