[no_butterscotch]

In the books Children of Time and the sequels (Children of Ruin and Children of Memory), when Dr Kern's human body is destroyed she ends up being existing as an artificial intelligence in multiple systems, one being traditional software and another as an ant swarm that can process information and carry data (her emulated self in this case).

The ants in the book are slightly "uplifted" as a species but are still just ants, a species subordinated to the uplifted spider-arachnid species.

[shostack]

The way the spiders domesticated them and turned them into logic gates was one of my favorite parts of the series.