AI-mediated bodies and the spatial production of embodied life: Rethinking sport, fitness and health in human geography

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in environments through which bodies are trained, monitored, evaluated and cared for. This article argues that AI-mediated embodiment should be understood not as intelligent systems applied to pre-existing settings, but as part of the spatial production of embodied life. It develops the concept of algorithmically produced embodied space to describe environments organized through extraction, classification, anticipation and intervention. Bringing sport, fitness and health into dialogue with human geography, the article shows how predictive systems redistribute bodily authority and produce uneven legibility, value and governability. It concludes that bodily futures are spatially produced, not technically predicted.