It's probably a combination of "Altman is simply lying" (as he has been repeatedly known to do) and "the redlines in OpenAI's contract are 'mass surveillance' and 'autonomous killbot' as defined by the government and not the vendor". Which, of course, effectively means they don't exist.

    > 'mass surveillance' and 'autonomous killbot' as defined by the government and not the vendor

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise