If we're just going to throw around random off-topic ideas...
Awesome day jobs:
Other ideas, anyone?
There's already at least one story about a time traveling robots saving a researcher.
And then there's the opposite of that.
Got this snippet of an idea while reading a Terminator/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover. Not going to do anything with it (for hopefully obvious reasons), but I figured I'd share because I found it amusing.
The artificial intelligence researcher looked up, startled, as the door slammed open, revealing a heavily-muscled man in the doorway.
"Eleizer Yudkowsky, come with me if you want to live."