A doctor has applied for a patent on new technology involving the use of advanced computers to create a new ty

Question

A doctor has applied for a patent on new technology involving the use of advanced computers to create a new type of organism and Are there other strategies that might be used to allow society time to evaluate new technology before it is implemented?

Answer 1

What you descibed is a computer simulation.  Another idea would be to test the technology in a closed environment, like when they test a car on a test track before testing it on the public roads.  In the case of medicine, that means doing experiments in quarintine.  Medical research is already done this way to a degree of course.