They are also a speciies capable of Teamwork , Farming , engineering , Forming governing system , Building sky scrapers . No other animals come close to that.
What if they would be considered as Non Human Intelligence?
So you can think of it as a single organism that has a "distributed" body.
From that perspective, the individual ants correspond to cells or organs, and it becomes both less and more fantastic :)
When Tim Gallaudet says "advanced non human intelligence" are interacting with our assets in the oceans - I doubt he means dolphins.
Tho both are undoubtedly NHI.
The actual "tech civilizational level" NHI are often described as insectoid. Interesting to consider that a collectively intelligent ant species could proceed through evolution into a multiplanet technologically super-advanced one.