I am a researcher with background in Physics. Let me start by saying my job is more under threat by people with more knowledge. If Artificial Intelligence is coming into play at all, it's only coming to play the role of making my work easier than it could have been and not take over the entire thing. To carry out research we cannot do without the real intelligence. Sometimes, one has to fall back on residual knowledge of many years back, derive equations and model and more. These things require deep and critical thinking which I believe can only be done by humans for now.