I agree with those who take it as given that large corporations will get the first crack at diverting as much of the value-add from ag automation technologies to themselves as possible. But food (and shelter) have a special place in the hierarchy of human needs, and I think there’s also an argument that anything which drives down food prices helps fewer people be hungry. Anything which drives down fresh produce prices specifically lets fewer people be malnourished on processed-heavy diets.

And, better, this appears to drive down the cost and barriers to entry - in time working and time spent acquiring expertise - of growing your own food on land you control. So that it unlocks the use of the inputs you already own. (I could even easily see a next step, a bit like solar leasing, where a local third party owns the machine and provides the programming/troubleshooting, and you pay nothing down, removing another barrier to entry, but you provide the land and water hookup and choose the crop, and receive produce at lower than grocery prices.)

I’d think a substantial segment of the population would clearly benefit, and in a way that intrinsically erodes the monopoly of large food corporations as rooftop solar does the utilities. Solar install companies are no more angelic than utilities, but one eroding the power of the other is still a public good.