Disabling Gemini AI within Google Colab

[MrWu]

Hi

 

I have tried to ask Google support with no joy

 

Our teachers want AI assist disabled within Google Colab globally for students, but I'm hitting a brick wall since Google tells me just to disable Colab completely, seems a bit sledgehammer solution that wont solve the issue.

 

Have anyone found a way of doing this? I was trying to think whether I can block the API call at the Firewall level?

 

Cheers!

 

 

[dhicks]

On 02/07/2025 at 13:47, MrWu said:

Our teachers want AI assist disabled within Google Colab globally for students

 

Similar-ish: we would like a way for teaching staff to easily be able to enable / disable Gemini AI features for groups of pupils (generally by class / yeargroup). Ideally, a nice easy-to-use interface where you select the group of pupils and have an on/off button you can press. We could write the user interface ourselves (quite possibly using Gemini AI code assistance!), it's just a case of finding the correct Google admin API call for the backend to call to turn features off / on.

[dhicks]

27 minutes ago, dhicks said:

a case of finding the correct Google admin API call for the backend to call to turn features off / on.

 

Hmm. Looking at the Google Admin Console user interface, I can see Admin -> Generative AI -> Gemini For Workspace, then a panel for "Feature Access" which lists Drive & Docs, GMail, Google Chat, Google Meet, all as on/off toggles. For some reason, Classroom is split out into its own panel.

 

The appropriate API endpoints for the above are possibly (?) somewhere in the Google Admin SDK API -> Directory API -> resources.features:

 

https://developers.google.com/workspace/admin/directory/reference/rest/v1/resources.features

 

I'd need to write some code and start to figure out what came out of some of the calls to the above API to figure out if that was the right part of the API to be using.

[MrWu]

My colleague have found possibly 2 api calls that I will get my ISP to block (Colab related)

 

https://cloudaicompanion.googleapis.com

https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com

 

I'm going to get my ISP to black it see if it works!