This article on the use of swarm-based computational models to solve intractable optimization problems made the ants seem pretty beneign.
Tiny, mannered coprocessors sniffing out trails of synthetic pheromones with precision engineered carbon nanotubes. It’s really very civilized.

Real ant behaviour is generally brutal and efficient. In comparison with their algorythmic progeny, incarnate wetware components of swarm based computational systems have strict caloric parameters.

These are the simple necessities of daily life. Particularly if you are a tropical type ant subject to indignities.

The tiny parasitic fly visible above the leaf is attempting to dart down and lay an egg in the ant’s body. If the fly is successful, the egg hatches into a larva that will consume the ant’s internal organs.