Not necessarily, not in some of the most useful ways of simply having a significantly more capable way of automating research & experimentation of many sorts. Anyone with a dataset and a laptop with a decent gpu, or pretty reasonably priced API or subscription to access models that don't even need to be frontier level, they can setup a loop for intelligent iteration through countless analytical methods, subset analysis, enriching the data with other sources, search and retrieval of research literature to cross reference results of analysis with other findings and write a basic summary for the person to review, look for alternative methods for analysis.

Yes, not everyone will be able to launch a swarm of agents and a few billion tokens, but scientific research has always had areas where the most advanced tools were beyond the reach of every scientist who might like to have access.