I think you should use ksort – it sorts the array by key.
Also you can’t save it to the $field[‘choices’], because this function does it by pointers. Just do it like this:
function sort_checkbox( $field ) {
ksort($field["choices"]);
return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=field_5d4164d40898f', 'sort_checkbox');