<p>Large language model (LLM)-based AI chatbots are becoming increasingly embedded across society. This paper focuses on higher education and starts with the concern that uncritically promoting widespread access to AI chatbots may lead to an expectation or even obligation to use them to perform academic tasks, for example, in the name of efficiency. The premise underlying this paper is that no person or institution should coerce a student, researcher or instructor to use AI chatbots to complete academic tasks. I offer two claims to support this. First, in their current form, the use of AI chatbots meets conditions that infringe upon what Thomas Douglas calls the “right against mental interference.” Second, current LLM use leads to significant tensions with moral beliefs (about property, politics, the environment, aesthetics, and agency) that make it immoral to force people into contradicting their moral beliefs by using them. So, I argue for the moral right to not use AI chatbots in higher education based on the right against mental interference and the right to moral freedom, that universities and chatbot developers have a duty to respect. I conclude with a discussion of the practicalities of my position for AI development and deployment: that developers should make less-interfering and morally-improved chatbots, and universities should protect people from being obliged to use products they consider incompatible with their mental and moral integrity.</p>