We submit to the promise of thinking machines. As a result of increasingly intelligent systems, we are losing our ability to judge things for ourselves. Dependent on algorithms as irresistible helpers in decision-making, we let machines explain the world to us.

In a modern fable, 7353 tells of a device for donkey recognition. Current tendencies of technological development are humorously taken to the extreme: Precise data analysis replaces common sense.

We prefer to entrust even the simplest questions (Is this a donkey?) to intelligent machines. The donkey detector, trained with Machine Learning, is actually able to detect donkeys. Connected to a camera, the device evaluates what it sees in real time. If it is a donkey (or a person wearing a donkey mask), a servo motor is activated, which turns the flashing calculator by 180° and symbolically decodes the cryptic numerical codes of the black box. Seemingly supernatural AI is unmasked as a mathematical statistics application and the numbers on the display are also readable: ESEL (donkey). An atmospheric film accompanies the installation.