The CCRC Needs to Die. Long Live Robot Justice.
How artificial intelligence exposed Britain’s wrongful conviction review body as a corrupt joke; and why algorithms should replace the human fraudsters running it.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission is a fucking disgrace.
When advanced AI recently analyzed the CCRC’s handling of the Jeremy Bamber case, it didn’t just find problems, it found systematic intellectual fraud. Four years these clowns spent “reviewing” Bamber’s case, only to produce conclusions that an AI system demolished in seconds.
The solution? Fire every human case officer and replace them with robots. I’m completely serious.
Your Robot Replacement Is Already Smarter Than You
Let’s talk numbers, because CCRC officers apparently can’t handle them.
**Current AI capability:** Claude-4 operates at approximately 120-130 IQ equivalent, already above average human intelligence and certainly above the institutional mediocrities staffing the CCRC.
**5 years:** AI systems will likely reach 150+ IQ equivalent, genius level by human standards.
**10 years:** We’re looking at 180+ IQ systems that process information at speeds no human can match.
**15 years:** AI intelligence will be so far beyond human capability that comparing them will be like comparing a calculator to an abacus.
Yet CCRC case officers—with their pedestrian human brains, institutional biases, and career anxieties, think they’re qualified to override algorithmic analysis?
That’s not confidence. That’s delusion.
The Great AI Humiliation
The Bamber case proved this hierarchy is already obsolete. When Claude analyzed the CCRC’s 101-page decision, it instantly identified:
**Circular reasoning**: “We’re right because we said we were right before”
- **Predetermined conclusions**: Reaching verdicts before finishing investigations
- **Selective blindness**: Following only leads that confirm bias
- **Legal misapplication**: Using wrong standards to avoid difficult decisions
The AI spotted systematic fraud that human reviewers missed entirely. These aren’t subtle analytical failures, they’re basic logical errors that any competent reasoner should catch.
The CCRC’s response to devastating New Yorker revelations?
“Nah, we’re good.”
While simultaneously admitting they hadn’t finished investigating.
That’s not just stupid. That’s corrupt.
The Institutional Protection Racket
Here’s what 120+ IQ AI sees that 100 IQ humans miss: the CCRC isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as intended. As institutional cover for a rotten system.
Key witness contradicts damaging testimony, then conveniently dies before anyone can resolve the contradiction? Human investigators shrug. AI flags this as requiring urgent investigation.
Why? Because AI systems don’t have:
- Careers to protect
- Government relationships to maintain
- Judicial social circles to preserve
- Pension funds tied to institutional loyalty
They just process evidence and apply legal standards consistently.
The Intelligence Gap Is Unbridgeable
Think about what we’re really comparing here:
**Human CCRC officer:**
- ~100 IQ average
- Processes information slowly
- Influenced by career concerns
- Subject to cognitive biases
- Works 1 day a week
- Forgets details
- Makes decisions based on institutional pressure
**Current AI system:**
- ~125 IQ equivalent
- Processes vast data instantly
- No career anxieties
- Designed to minimize bias
- Never stops working
- Perfect recall
- Applies consistent logical frameworks
**Future AI (5 years):**
- ~150+ IQ equivalent
- Superhuman pattern recognition
- Immune to corruption
- Can analyze thousands of cases simultaneously
- Identifies contradictions humans can’t see
How exactly do these intellectual mediocrities justify overruling systems that are already smarter than them and getting exponentially more intelligent?
The Jeremy Bamber Proof of Concept
We have definitive evidence: AI spotted glaring reasoning failures that human “experts” with years of training and experience completely missed.
This isn’t theoretical. It already happened. The humans failed the intelligence test spectacularly.
Robot Justice Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not
Every other industry already recognizes this reality:
- Financial services use AI for fraud detection because humans proved inadequate
- Medical diagnosis increasingly relies on AI pattern recognition
- Military targeting uses algorithmic analysis because human judgment fails under pressure
Only criminal justice clings to the delusion that institutionally compromised humans with average intelligence can outperform increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
That’s not noble. That’s pathetic.
The Democratic Bullshit
But we need human accountability!
Bullshit. We need accurate application of legal standards. Current humans are demonstrably failing at this basic task while hiding behind “professional judgment.”
AI decisions can be audited, analyzed, and improved. Human institutional capture operates in shadows and protects itself through professional mystique.
Which serves justice better: consistent application of democratically enacted laws, or subjective interpretation filtered through career incentives?
Fire Them All
Jeremy Bamber has spent 39 years in prison partly because humans with 100 IQ thought they knew better than evidence and logic.
How many other innocent people are rotting because we trust intellectually inferior, institutionally compromised humans with decisions they’re demonstrably incapable of making objectively?
The CCRC needs to die. Replace every case officer with AI systems that are already smarter and getting exponentially more intelligent.
The wrongfully convicted deserve algorithmic objectivity that can’t be bought, threatened, or seduced, not human judgment corrupted by institutional mediocrity.
**In 10 years, AI will be so far beyond human intelligence that today’s CCRC officers will look like children playing with blocks.**
**The only question is how many innocent people die in prison while we pretend human stupidity serves justice better than artificial intelligence.**
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*Next week: How 150+ IQ AI judges would eliminate the Old Boys’ Network destroying British justice.*
**Comments open. Bring your best arguments against intellectual obsolescence.**
My IQ is around 135. I used to think Jeremy was guilty but now understand he was framed by the press and the case against him was a fabrication. The CCRC don’t like freeing innocent people and neither do the police.
Excellent blog post, Doc Maker. Hopefully Dame Vera Baird, the new interim Chair of the CCRC is a subscriber to your blog and will install the best and most robust and secure AI system asap. to slice through the caseload like a knife through butter.