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The idea that humankind is something transient is widely discussed in the modern philosophy. The nightmare of both humanistic and trans-humanistic philosophy is that humanity will inevitably face some insuperable limits for further development, or even worse, can appear an evolutionary dead-and. In public consciousness this idea is often represented by the scenarios like artificial intelligence will “conquer the world”. K. Popper sais that there is only one step from amoeba to Einstein. He implies concrete methodological significance in this rhetorical statement. But this significance can be ontological. Approximately 3 billion years ago cyanobacterium started to produce oxygen. They just needed energy, so they received it from the water and filled the Earth atmosphere with oxygen. These bacterium didn‘t have the “aim” to produce oxygen, they satisfied their needs. Nowadays homo sapiens produces the wide range of technical devices, including artificial intelligence, in order to satisfy its needs in communication, safety, energy supply and political power. Like in the case with cyanobacterium oxygen production, the technical development is not the aim, but just the instrument for humanity. If we continue the analogy between cyanobacterium and homo sapiens from the “Universe point of view”, we can suppose, that technical sphere as a co-product of human activity may be the precondition of a new form of being genesis, like oxygen atmosphere was the precondition of the more complex aerobic organisms genesis. But in this case the transience of humankind must be fixed ontologically. So, we can develop the anthropic technological principle if we attempt to save the special ontological status of homo sapiens. It claims that technological development must be controlled in order to prevent complete human elimination in principle. Every technical device must be constructed in the way that makes impossible it’s full-fledged functioning, including self-reproduction, without human sanction. This principle is based on the strong supposition that we really can control the technical development. The anthropic technological principle, in contrast with the anthropic cosmological principle, is pure normative. We can‘t use it in the explanatory scheme. It should be understand as the evolutionary defensive mechanism of homo sapiens.