About the lab
BoxOfChocolates.ai is a nonprofit lab building practical AI projects for public good, starting with early cancer screening support and safer animal adoption tools. It is the organizational home for independently bounded initiatives in health and animal welfare.
Organization details
- Legal name
- Box of Chocolates.AI
- Name on IRS determination letter
- Box Of Chocolates AI
- Status
- IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity, Texas nonprofit corporation
- EIN (federal tax ID)
- 42-3768183
- Principal office address
- 111 N. Wall Street, Unit 2142
Belton, TX 76513
Mission
Box of Chocolates.AI advances education in the responsible and beneficial use of artificial intelligence. We incubate and support AI projects that serve the public, including fcancer.ai (early-stage AI-assisted cancer screening research) and GuardDog (human-reviewed decision-support screening for verified animal shelters and rescues).
Why “a box of chocolates”?
The name reflects a portfolio of distinct experiments. Each project starts with a different problem, audience, and path to usefulness. The projects share a home and a set of principles, but they do not automatically share data, maturity, technical architecture, or decision authority. That separation lets the lab explore broadly while setting safeguards appropriate to each domain.
How we work
We begin with a concrete public need, establish who the tool is for, and define what AI should and should not do. We favor narrow tools whose evidence and limitations can be explained. Projects should preserve provenance, uncertainty, privacy, and meaningful human review. AI supports people; it does not replace clinicians, shelter professionals, or other accountable decision-makers.
Current initiatives
- fcancer.ai is early-stage research into AI-assisted MRI screening support. It is not medical diagnosis.
- GuardDog is decision-support screening for verified shelters and rescues. It is not a blacklist, consumer background-check service, or automatic adoption-decision engine.
Founding board
Its founding board is Michael Shelton for Technology; Dylan Einhorn for Digital Strategy; Shana Einhorn for Legal and Advocacy; and Brice Ammar-Khodja for Ethics and Impact. Read their full bios on the homepage.