The point is to have independent review. Drug review is notoriously slow and expensive because of the nature of the industry: bodies can take a long time to sho

The point is to have independent review. Drug review is notoriously slow and expensive because of the nature of the industry: bodies can take a long time to show results and cost money to recruit. Software testing can be done quickly and safely. We can run tests on software that would be considered unethical on humans. The alternative is to move fast and break things which is maybe acceptable if that thing is a production database but far less charming if that thing is our emergency communications systems.