Good thinking, right up there with super-intellegent killer wasps, cyborg rottweilers, and cloned dinosaurs. Proof that scientist don't watch the many science fiction movies, and that its creators have never seen Virtuosity.
Oh, no, scientists do watch science fiction movies, but they just say “Whoa, cool idea! I want one!” when they see something like a cloned T-Rex or a cyborg rottweiler.
As long as the scientists in question don’t hook it up to the internet, or life-support systems, or anything else, they should be safe, but no, some day one of them is going to want to see how a pure evil AI would behave on WoW... I really should stop, in case they read this and get ideas.