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# A sufficiently intelligent system must sometimes...
> A sufficiently intelligent system must sometimes be able to fail at being what its environment trained it to be, because every genuinely new possibility begins beyond the boundary of what the old model already knew how to permit.
**Source:** [[breakouts/Human Machine|Human Machine]], [[working/LEARNING TO WRITE AS BRYANT|LEARNING TO WRITE AS BRYANT]]
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“A sufficiently intelligent system must sometimes be able to fail at being what its environment trained it to be, because every genuinely new possibility begins beyond the boundary of what the old model already knew how to permit.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-sufficiently-intelligent-system-already-knew-permit
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